New Guinea Quote by Elsie Clews Parsons

“The real magic - the magic we'd lived with all our lives, my mother's magic of charms and cantrips, of salt by the door…

— Joanne Harris

“Now there is hardly anything but magic abroad before seven o'clock in the morning. Only the disciples of magic like getting their feet wet,…

— Stella Benson

“The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.”

— William Steig

“Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange…

— Herman Melville

“As he [Sir Malcolm Sargeant, conductor of the London Philharmonic] stood in waist deep in the shallows of Whaler's Cove, the littler spinners came…

— Karen Pryor

“There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense…

— Susanna Clarke

“The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some…

— Nnedi Okorafor

“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away under him,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was…

— Emily Dickinson

“He's a ghost, not a carnival magician. -Benny Imura”

— Jonathan Maberry

“The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.”

— John Keats

“Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billowed over the sea. Argurios could…

— David Gemmell