Austin J. Bailey > Quotes

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”‌—‌Barbara Kingsolver Copyright”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“completely invisible”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“What will we do first?” Tabitha asked her. They were soaring high above the castle, descending in lazy loops as Tabitha slid from one warm updraft to another. Tabitha’s starlings glided around them like a halo.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“2. A Wizard’s Weight There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. —Thomas Aquinas”
― Austin J. Bailey, Simon Fayter and the Doors of Bone

“They had stopped talking many years ago on a day not unlike this one. The memory was still painful to him.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
― Austin J. Bailey, Simon Fayter and the Doors of Bone

“Those who seek understanding find it, though not always in the places they expect.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“It didn’t take long before he found her. She was unconscious‌—‌dead,”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“She got back into bed and then leapt out again when she remembered what had awakened her. The noise! It had been so loud!”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“She was half lying down, half sitting up, with an impressive amount of drool pooled beside her face. Evidently she had fallen asleep with her head on her hand, elbow propped against her knee, and then face-planted some time later. Her father was poking her. “Wake up, drool-face.” She lifted her head but stayed sprawled, wiping her face with one hand and batting him away with the other. “Bad Daddy,” she said weakly. He stopped, then burst out laughing.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Space was all around them, stretching out like an ocean of silent wind‌—‌ribboned with color and starlight.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“He had followed the creature through the mist at the top of the high, arched bridge and down the other side into a dark and tangled forest which bears a name so old and evil that it cannot be written.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Austin J. Bailey.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“phantom,”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Sometimes a person must risk everything to become who they were meant to be.” The”
― Austin J. Bailey, Magemother: Books 2-3

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
― Austin J. Bailey, Simon Fayter and the Doors of Bone

“a crush”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Chapter Two In which someone is very nearly eaten”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“excitement.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“*** Archibald”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Remember this moment, Simon. Remember: the power that matters most in life is that which we have over ourselves.”157”
― Austin J. Bailey, Simon Fayter and the Doors of Bone

“Chapter Three In which Hugo spies, sneezes, and walks through secret passageways”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Hugo”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Chapter Sixteen In which there is an astonished goat B”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“far from her world. In that place, several days before Brinley was awakened by the”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Someone has a brain. Not you. You still have some smarts to gain.” Brinley”
― Austin J. Bailey, Magemother: Books 2-3

“I am terrified that I am going to mess it up.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“the wind was his business.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“She was half lying down, half sitting up, with an impressive amount of drool pooled beside her face. Evidently she had fallen asleep with her head on her hand, elbow propped against her knee, and then face-planted some time later. Her father was poking her. “Wake up, drool-face.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Dad,” Brinley said at length, thinking of the question she had meant to ask him, “how did you find me?” “Hmm? Oh. In a basket, on the steps of the old church at Morley,”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie