Bits Quote by William Steig

“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

“Duncan's temper kindled, but it didn't dampen the lust seeping along his nerve endings. He could flatten this persnickety witch, or better yet, weave…

— Ann Gimpel

“It was all sympathetic magic. When you couldn't do something truly useful, you tended to vent the pent-up energy in something useless but available,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

— Lisa Kleypas

“dashed across streets without looking, they got horsing around in the lake and suddenly realized they had floated far past their depth on their…

— Stephen King

“[I] threw open the door to find Rob sit­ting on the low stool in front of my book­case, sur­round­ed by card­board box­es. He was…

— Annie Barrows

“A brick could be used to smash my bottled up rage, and a blanket could be laid down beforehand to catch the shards. 
”

— Jarod Kintz

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

— David Copperfield

“Duncan stared at him. This was wild. This was like something from the tales of ancient times. He was not an ancient prince and…

— Emilia Ferguson

“His feeling of having crashed did not consist of envy, exactly, or even entirely of having outlived himself. It was more like despair about…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Ian, about Elizabeth Cameron. Her duenna said some things-“ That alarmingly pleasant yet distant smile returned to Ian’s face. “I’ll spare you further conversation,…

— Judith McNaught

“Balls in bells, nuts in shells, magic in spells, wishes in wells.”

— John Biccard