“Carry on the Flame to a new dawn I am with you. ~the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea” — Jodine Turner Copy Share Image
“But the days are still ours, and we still have many fine moments ahead of us.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The hillside was thick with trees, the same hill we had left barren the day before.” — Ruth Emmie Lang Copy Share Image
I love 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid. It's a magical realism retelling of the refugee experience, where people find these magical doors… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
“We’ll start on the ruins when you come back.” “Looks like a big job.” “Those are the most important.” — Valerie Dunsmore Copy Share Image
“We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull… — Lindsay Hunter Copy Share Image
“Magic isn’t about make-believe, after all. It’s just about suspending your own disbelief sufficiently to see the wonder that exists inside each… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The place cast a spell on me, a lovely spell that seduced me one one breath at a time.” — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
“Most girls celebrate their birthdays with friends. I spent mine with a pack of wolves.” — Ruth Emmie Lang Copy Share Image
The 'Mahabharata' is the best story ever. It makes you believe that impossible things can be made possible. There is magical realism. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“Troy smiled down at her, and her heart jumped into her throat. The lights turned his skin colors. Red, green, blue. Glimpses… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
“This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte -… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“I wanted to kiss you for a long time, and I decided that might be my only chance. I’ve been miserable ever… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“We believe the lies about the true meaning of life because these lies are familiar and hence comfortable. Yet, when we let… — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
“People from the mainland, particularly those from the capital, have always wanted to get married on Finø. Perhaps it has to do… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
“Crying isn't so bad. I mean, I have a sister..." He paused, and she had the distinct impression he was debating whether… — Ashley Nikole Copy Share Image
“The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I became my grief. I wept in advance for all the things that would happen, the unimaginable things beyond the horizon of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“A lovely rainbow arcs across the sky, and beneath it, a butterfly dances — carrying magic on painted wings, fairy-like, drifting on… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the… — Kayt C. Peck Copy Share Image
“Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the… — Kathleen Alcala Copy Share Image
“But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“You have been given a gift and gifts are not always deserved, but they should always be accepted.” — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
“But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the… — James Patrick Kelly John Kessel Copy Share Image
