Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.

Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard, to keep from falling. Schmedrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, "That's what heroes are for.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. --Prince Carrick

And so there is magic.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.