“Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades” — Keith Collier Copy Share Image
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in whether I'm better than you; only whether I'm better than yesterday.” — Mike Ormsby Copy Share Image
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner Copy Share Image
“I did not know I was to be outdone by a little magic boy and his tricks,” he said. “I salute you,… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead,… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“I walked past Malison, up Lower Main to Main and across the road. I didn’t need to look to know he was… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Whither be the heart of Justice? Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone. Whither be the heart of Justice? Lo, tis fast… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“What sorcery is this?” he snarled. “I lie down with a goddess and wake up to an old hag?” — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Then...there was no sorcery?" Lannister snorted. "Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image