Assuming Quote by Charles de Lint

We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all…

— Deborah Harkness

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with…

— Laurie Foos

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that…

— Charles de Lint

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those…

— Roald Dahl

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

— Gene Wolfe

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

— Anonymous

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

— Neil Gaiman

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

— Charles de Lint

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

— Anonymous

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric…

— Sue Monk Kidd