mysterious powers Quotes

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.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

Al's red eyes slid past me to Pierce. "Play?" he said, his voice dripping with interest. "Gordian Nathaniel Pierce's quirks are legendary. Why do you think I want the runt so badly? Size truly doesn't matter if you can do what he can." ~ Algaliarept, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.