Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I don't like magic.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

I've always loved magic.

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. “I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.

So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

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

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

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

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.