Backhanded-compliment Quote by Jane Washington

“Either don't go around the fire, if you go aroung it, you have to accept the smoke and sparks.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Don't worry— you see, to some you are magic.”

— Atticus Poetry

“You are the closest I will ever come to magic.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Open your eyes to the magic around you.”

— Brom

“...for we are always at one with the instrument of our magic spells.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé

“Sometimes magic is not around us but within us.”

— Kotoba Clan

“Look around you, he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. Not a one of them even has an inkling of the things…

— Erin Morgenstern

“I will never decrease my fire that everyone tries to put out. They are just afraid the light inside me might destroy them.”

— Jennae Cecelia

“We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch…

— Tan Twan Eng

“Sometimes I wonder what magic encircles all of us, what we could do if we were sensitive enough to unearth it.”

— Kathryn Purdie

“Fireflies ... They’ll follow you wherever you like, as long as you’re polite to ’em. ”

— Jessie Atkin

“I look at you Across those fires and the dark.”

— Weldon Kees