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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pot...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

After dinner, at five o’clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each ...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.

And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and tha...

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There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved f...

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My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gif...

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Gerald DurrellMy Family and Other Animals

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that on...

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There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's r...

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There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Na...

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My mother explained the magic with this washing machine the very, very first day. She said, 'Now Han...

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The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ......

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This is the story of a boy named Pete Coutinho, who had a spell put on him. Some people might have c...

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A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the...

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If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object...

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Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wa...

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For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce...

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Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel d...

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الكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعة

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Isabel AllendeLa suma de los días

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch...

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The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ri...

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Italo CalvinoSix Memos For The Next Millennium

You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do ...

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Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...

Why would anyone bother making door-keys shrink?’ said George.‘Just Muggle-baiting,’ sighed Mr Weasl...

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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protect...

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I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen...

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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves alre...

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I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Prime Minister gazed hopelessly at the pair of them for a moment, then the words he had fought t...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talkin...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

...but it's not so much having to repair the damage, it's more the attitude behind the vandalism, Ha...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Only Muggles talk of the ‘mind reading.’ The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined a...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry―yer a wizard.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Oh, are you doing magic? Let’s see it, then.”She sat down. Ron looked taken aback.“Er — all right.”H...

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Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: w...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The...

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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power...

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Touch magic. Pass it on.

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Jane YolenTouch Magic: Fantasy

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really sayin...

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Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

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Jasper FfordeThe Last Dragonslayer

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforesee...

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magic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, usi...

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Jasper FfordeThe Song of the Quarkbeast

I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecti...

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Jasper FfordeThe Song of the Quarkbeast

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

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Jasper FfordeThe Well of Lost Plots

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life an...

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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you ...

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See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other ...

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My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like th...

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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare ...

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You need to know where to go,' Sanya said.'Yes,''And you are going to consult four large pizzas for ...

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Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intan...

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Do you really think you can win?''Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thi...

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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin...

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I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part o...

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Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black...

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Technically,' I said, "I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, ...

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I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the ...

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One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, st...

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A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There ...

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Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?''To where they treat me like royalty,' I said.'We're goin...

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... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip a...

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Magic. It can get a guy killed.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel i...

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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Gra...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, an...

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It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes th...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

I wish magic was more dramatic

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on ...

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in ...

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Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i...

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Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,Empty the haunted air, ...

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Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Bab...

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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitiv...

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This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is prepar...

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John SteinbeckThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in your...

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Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society t...

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He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.

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Kate DiCamilloThe Magician's Elephant

But that is impossible," said Peter."Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with...

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What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic.

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Kate DiCamilloThe Magician's Elephant

Science is magic that works.

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders