Magic Mirror Quotes

“(Doesn't this sound like all our lives on Zoom during Covid?) -- "...no one knew how to free the man from the mirror; the curse was too strong. Seeing the man I loved every day through a layer of glass, unable to touch him, or kiss him, or hold him was unbearable. I was more than heartbroken. The pain was so deep I could barely breathe" (p.377).”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

“There is no death, said the mirror, only changing.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow

“It may be an all-seeing Mirror and former king, but that doesn't mean that it's got people skills.”
― Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Darkwood

“Stepping through the mirror was like no physical experience he'd ever had. It was like swimming if the water was made of treacle and also of outer space, sweet and airless and tugging and infinite, and dark in a way that wasn't a binary to light but rather a different state entirely, complete unto itself. The body of the darkness was sound, which was sensation: countless wings brushing against one another, countless blades of golden grass moving in an endless wind, every distant highway ever heard.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“His faith pulsed around him, tangible and wavering like one small flame in a gale of wind.
He was at once convicted for his audacity and exalted for his discernment.
He felt the laws of nature being stretched apart at the seams, and he found a tantalizing thread of other in the void between them.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon