“And that’s all magic was: displacement.”
“If magic does not have friends in Yorkshire where may we find them?”
“I cannot explain the force which pulled me to him. His sudden entrance into my empty life had awakened something very simple and very human in me. I was wondering and wishing and hoping like a fool with the rest of them. I had come undone by the magic. I wanted to believe. I wanted to chase after something vain and stupid. I wanted to forget everything.”
“We are great magicians. We can magnify the magnificence of a moment with the magic of our minds. Our thoughts can make us see the extra in the ordinary.”
“The storm has brought Ulla to the cold shelter of the northern islands, to the darkened caves and flat black pools where she remains to this day, waiting for the lonely, the ambitious, the clever, the frail, for all those willing to strike a bargain. She never waits for long.”
“Fairies were different. In the winding mountain paths and emerald-topped forests of Feyland, there were so many magical creatures.”
“She saw that magic and science were heads and tails of the same bright coin.”
“Any act, if in accordance with the will, is an act of magic.”
“Everything is magical when you see it with your heart.”
“Step into the darkness with me, child... I will make of you a God.”