Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

What I really wanted was the impossible.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

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.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

I've always loved magic.

It's almost like my life is a fairytale.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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.