Tonality Quote by Richard Powers

“The marvelous intricacy of the rules they’d established, the processes they’d set into motion, the miracles of subtlety and beauty, were enough to make…

— David Weber

“Human beings are complicated, thorny, messy things. But those unquantifiable qualities are also what make magic happen.”

— Laszlo Bock

“There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and…

— Terry Brooks

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive, we were not free, merely licensed, we were not compassionate, we were polite,…

— Toni Morrison

“By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to…

— Lev Grossman

“The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.”

— Don Bradley

“They were mere permutations of known quantities. There was no roundness or fullness in this world he now inhabited, everything was a dead shape…

— D. H. Lawrence

“It was... the Great White God de-throned, I suppose. Because we did, we quite unselfconsciously assumed we were the measure of all things. That…

— Pat Barker

“And that’s all magic was: displacement.”

— Rohit Sawant

“Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his…

— Sir Walter Scott

“If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

“What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.”

— Orson Scott Card