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  • #1
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Burnt Tongues

  • #2
    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #3
    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #4
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in Your Heart

    Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #5
    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

  • #6
    Christopher Moore
    “Children see magic because they look for it.”
    Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
    But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
    Terry Pratchett, Mort

  • #8
    Cate Tiernan
    “There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
    Cate Tiernan

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #10
    Francesca Lia Block
    “Magic can be found in stolen moments.”
    Francesca Lia Block

  • #11
    J.M. Barrie
    “On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #12
    “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
    Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!”
    William Hutchison Murray

  • #13
    Deb Caletti
    “If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #14
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “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.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
    What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world.”
    Anais Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

  • #16
    Beau Taplin
    “Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.”
    Beau Taplin

  • #17
    Tera Lynn Childs
    “I don't believe it,' Quince says with absolute certainty. ' I don't believe anything magical can make someone more in love.' [...] He looks me right in the eye as he says, 'Love is already the strongest magic in the world.”
    Tera Lynn Childs, Forgive My Fins

  • #18
    Jim  Butcher
    “Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.”
    Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

  • #19
    Priya Ardis
    “Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
    He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
    Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

  • #20
    Kate Griffin
    “We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!”
    Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels

  • #21
    Lauren Oliver
    “(I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light.
    But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.”
    Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po

  • #22
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “... so this is for us.
    This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
    and this is for doing it even if no one will ever know
    because the beauty is in the act of doing it.
    Not what it can lead to.
    This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playing
    and no one is around and they will never know
    but I will forever remember
    and that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have,
    and this is for you who write or play or read or sing
    by yourself with the light off and door closed
    when the world is asleep and the stars are aligned
    and maybe no one will ever hear it
    or read your words
    or know your thoughts
    but it doesn’t make it less glorious.
    It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.
    Infinite.
    For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe in
    and only you can decide how much it meant
    and means
    and will forever mean
    and other people will experience it too
    through you.
    Through your spirit. Through the way you talk.
    Through the way you walk and love and laugh and care
    and I never meant to write this long
    but what I want to say is:
    Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourself
    and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.
    Let your very identity be your book.
    Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

    So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountain
    where no one will ever hear
    and your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar.
    Make your life be your art
    and you will never be forgotten.”
    Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

  • #23
    Shel Silverstein
    “But all the magic I have known
    I've had to make myself.”
    Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

  • #24
    Mandy Hale
    “Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.”
    Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

  • #25
    Ilona Andrews
    Estene aleera hesaad de viren aneda." And now, you are forever mine.”
    Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

  • #26
    L.H. Cosway
    “So why not live with the magic? Be a kid again and believe in the fantastical. Life is more fun with a little smoke and mirrors.”
    L.H. Cosway, Six of Hearts
    tags: magic

  • #27
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #28
    Mandy Hale
    “Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.”
    Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

  • #29
    Mandy Hale
    “Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”
    Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

  • #30
    Roy T. Bennett
    “It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life; you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart



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