Quotes about spells

Alaina Stanford - As Darkness Falls

A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull of the undertow. Rising, it moved further up the white sandy beach away from the cold water. The creature collapsed onto the cool sand as the crescent moon above shone on his sleek gray skin revealing two immense leather-like wings protruding from his back. Exhaustion clouded his mind. The darkness of night was soothing, refreshing. Somehow he knew it would bring h

Taylor Keys - Double Bubble Boil and Trouble

What’s going on?” Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.” She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. “I’m just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.” Ingrid busted out with a laugh. “I wouldn’t call her that,” she said. “That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?” She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. “What did the brat do this time?” She set her glass down.

Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells

He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.

Solange nicole -

The Light yearns for the peaceful balance of the Darkness as much as Darkness seeks the Glory of the Light.

Alaina Stanford - When Magic Fails

Jack sprung to his feet out of reach. "I'd prefer to finish this intact. " "My apologies,” Cabal said, grinning viciously. "l keep forgetting, you're only human." His smile softened to full amusement as Jack raised his sword in challenge."Human or not," Jack said as he slowly approached him. "I carry the advantage of unworldly knowledge. "" Is that what you're doing?" Cabal laughed; "Something unworldly?""I have a vast library of knowledge inside my head from my homeland.""What knowledge could y

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul.

Natalie Valdes - NIRVANA

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

Lita Burke - Tredan's Bane

You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.

Lita Burke - Tredan's Bane

I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.

Nenia Campbell - Touched with Sight

A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one as a curse. Because if one did not fulfill the terms of one's geas, one died. It was old magic, the magic of the gods, spoken in the tongues of those who controlled the dragons—and it was supposed to be extinct.

Cheryl Matthynssens - The Blackguard

Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in ways that make others think. It is a fault, I fear, that has come with age.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!

Carla H. Krueger - Sleeping with the Sun

Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

A witch does not need to fix problems. She fixes the energy AROUND problems. Then the problems fix themselves…

Lauren DeStefano - A Curious Tale of the In-Between

Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.

Alaina Stanford - Forbidden Quest

Feeling drunk with the anticipation of being alone in the elevator with the blonde seductress, Jack turned back and flashed a wicked grin at Todd before disappearing down the hall."I’m Shala. I was also hoping we'd have a private moment together, before your adventure begins.” She spoke softly and slipped her hand into the crook of Jack's arm."Shala, you read my mind," Jack replied as they reached the elevator. "After Dr. Strong and I talk, how about you show me the sights of Landon.""The most e

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Magick happens when you step into who you truly are and embrace that which fulfills your soul.

J.R.R. Tolkien -

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories

Amanda Turner -

The room flashed brighter still and then gasps filled the room. They were all gathered around Roxy and she was unsure why. She didn’t feel any different, Hadn’t the spell worked ? Roxy opened her mouth to speak and then she heard it…… a purr.

Dacha Avelin - Old World Witchcraft: Pathway To Effective Magick

Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten.

Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

Every spell is a journey.

L. Sprague de Camp - The Incompleat Enchanter

Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the country have agreed to call magic 'white' when practised for lawful ends by duly authorized agents of the governing authority, and 'black' when practised by unauthorized persons for criminal ends. That is not to say that the principles of the science — or art — are not the same in either event. You should confine such terms as 'black' and 'white' to the objects for which the magic is performed, and not

Deb Caletti - The Secret Life of Prince Charming

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

The Silver Elves - a Healthy Body and a Magical Life

It is important to view a recipe book as one that you use daily and what we in our family call "a living book" — a book that you use all the time, not just read once and discard on the shelf. It is in a sense a spell book, a book of magical enchantments, to be consulted, used and altered as needed.

The Silver Elves - a Healthy Body and a Magical Life

My cooking spoon,My magic wand, Of this dish,You will be fond.

The Silver Elves - a Healthy Body and a Magical Life

Healing Magic I instill,Far Greater this,Than any pill!

Camilla Isley - I Wish for You

Forthwith I crush this acid lemonFreeing myself of the malefic venomHither I let thee rottenLet my curse be forgotten.

Brynn Myers - Redemption

She tilted her chin up and gave him a big cheeky grin. “I’m official.” Kylah pulled her shirt to the side to reveal her mark. “See.” A low growl came from Aerric when she showed a little more than just her mark. He moved to pull her close and she chuckled right before she shimmered out. “Catch me if you can, dragon boy.

Ursula Vernon - Castle Hangnail

Let's take a minute to talk about spellbooks, since, in this day and age when magic is no longer taught in schools (or is, at best, an elective like Home Economics), very few people have the experience with spellbooks that they used to.

Drew Hayes - the Vampire Accountant

Albert died in an unfortunate accident sometime ago and was raised as a zombie by his amateur necromancer friend, Neil. Bubba was a new friend we had acquired in Vegas when helping him gain back the freedom he had previously gambled away. The fourth member of our group, a government agent and my girlfriend named Krystal, was out of town for work this week, thus I was conducting my first weekly scrabble tournament with just the three of us. Which leaves only me to be accounted for in the explanat

Molly Ringle - The Goblins of Bellwater

You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.

Susanna Clarke -

The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, just as the tumbling of the black birds against the grey was a spell that the sky was working and the motion of grey-brown grasses was a spell that the wind made. Everything had meaning.

Michelle Cuevas - Beyond the Laughing Sky

things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.

Jada Berglund - The Mysteries of My Life

Is my world turning into Harry Potter's?!

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...

F.T. McKinstry - The Hunter's Rede

Lorth spoke a word and came into focus, though he had learned from experience that his features, the ghost-pale skin of a Northman with the gold-green eyes of a wolf, were almost as unnerving to a Tarthian as the shadowy form of a cloaking spell.

William O'Brien - Enchantment and Stardust: The Poems

Devil’s WishA bowl of spellsSwirls a mixSmoke and bubblesSeek the fixYoung boy's eyeAnd fever fewWitches grassSome mandrake root

N. E. Conneely - Witch for Hire

Simple spells were light and fun, like a good joke. This spell was as simple as a symphony and as splendid. After adding the last runes, I swirled power through the old spells ensuring they merged with the new spells. The entire castle of spells flexed with the added power, my sign to retreat and hope it worked. Watching the spells bend and move was captivating. One moment they were crawling over each other looking for structure and the next they'd formed a fortress of magic seeking targets, cal

Jennifer Loiske - Black Diamond

All you need is one thought and one word. When you learn how to connect them, you can do anything you like.

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis.

Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Dacha Avelin -

When you start to notice the mystical, the mystical will start to notice you.

Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells

Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.

Aprilynne Pike - Spells

Her hand wandered under his shirt, feeling his rapid breath expand his ribs. She hesitated for a second—wondering what the chances were that either of her parents would come home early—then lifted his shirt with both hands, guiding it up his arms and over his head. It was her favourite indulgence; holding herself against his bare chest.

Jack Campbell - The Dragons of Dorcastle

I do not know how you have done this to me. I thought that if I returned the help you had given me that I would be free of the inexplicable influence you have over me. But it does not seem to be working, and you say you cannot break the thread."Mari realized that her mouth had fallen open as she stared at Mage Alain. "Are you serious?""What would I be if not serious?""You're saying that I put a spell on you that controls your thoughts and actions?""Why else am I here?" The Mage asked."Because it

Taylor Keys - Double Bubble Boil and Trouble

What’s going on?� Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.� She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. “I’m just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.� Ingrid busted out with a laugh. “I wouldn’t call her that,� she said. “That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?� She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. “What did the brat do this time?� She set her glass down.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Witchcraft is a path of personal freedom.

Dacha Avelin -

A witch is a woman who emerges from deep within herself. She is a woman who has honestly explored her light and learned to celebrate her darkness. She is a woman who is able to fall in love with the magnificent possibilities of her power. She is a woman who radiates mystery. She is magnetic. She is a witch.

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