Magic was just something people liked to believe in, something they thought they could feel or sense, something that made everything more than just mechanical certainty. Something that made them more than flesh and bone.
C Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust
“Is Jane magic?” Martha whispered to Katharine. “I don’t know. I think so,” Katharine whispered back. Jane glared at them. They went for two blocks in silence. “Are we magic, too?” “I don’t know. I’m scared to find out.”
Edward Eager, Half Magic
In magic—and in life—there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
Paulo Coelho, Aleph
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Banner: Are you going to give me the old magic is science we don’t understand yet?
Strange: Has it occurred to you that science is magic we don’t understand yet?
dir. Mitch Schauer, Marvel’s Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell
Young wizards are always surprised to discover that magic doesn’t solve most of their problems.
Bill Kieffer, The Goat
“I don’t like to be a witch,” said Minx, unhappily. “I’d like to be just like other children.” “But don’t you know lots of magic?” persisted Jack. “I know some,” admitted Minx, rather proudly.
Anna Elizabeth Bennett, Little Witch
The difference between Cinderella’s story and mine is that there are no happy endings here. There is no Prince Charming, no magic pumpkin coach to spirit me away, no light at the end of the tunnel. There is only me, and I am royally shafted.
Harmon Cooper, The Feedback Loop
He had to be smarter. He had to use the magic with a little wisdom, instead of haphazardly.
Elizabeth Engstrom, Benediction Denied: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel
was it just an accident, or did we want so much to be magic we got that way, somehow?
Edward Eager, Half Magic
