“Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.” TryingMindFacesBehindsFocusMagicBloodColorFindingsStonesFleshTrailsWizardsGalleryBrillianceJasonFlesh And BloodHaleyPuppeteerHeadmastersLeicester Author:Cinda Williams Chima
“Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion.” TryingKindEndsGuyBrainDoorsMagicStressLeavingDiscussionLazyMysticalSave MeUnexplainable Book:Wicked Appetite Source: Wicked Appetite
“You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingRealHappensClassMagicThings HappenBehaveMake Things Happen Book:Among Others Source: Among Others
“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingSaidHappensCoursesNiceMagicPositivePositive ThinkingOne DayExperimentsNice ThingsSecret GardenMagic In The World Book:The Secret Garden Source: The Secret Garden
“It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did” IfsKnowsWritingTryingLooksMeanPersonsI CanSeemsLastsBitsHoursImaginationSleepHalfMagicDrugMadVanityAfternoonMy ImaginationVividHalf Hours Book:The Collector Source: The Collector