Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

“The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.”
― Zeena Schreck

“You’re here.â€�
Of course I am, where else would I be?
I thought…well, I wasn’t sure if this was our dream or just mine.
It’s ours, Livvie, it’s ours. Always ours.”
― Felicia Tatum, The White Aura

“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that a human being was justly entitled to the product of his own labor. Not a word about the cruelty of masters who would destroy even the babes of slave mothers. It seems to me wonderful that this God did not tell the king of Egypt that no nation could enslave another, without also enslaving itself; that it was impossible to put a chain around the limbs of a slave, without putting manacles upon the brain of the master. Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand? Instead of declaring these things, instead of appealing to justice, to mercy and to liberty, he resorted to feats of jugglery. Suppose we wished to make a treaty with a barbarous nation, and the president should employ a sleight-of-hand performer as envoy extraordinary, and instruct him, that when he came into the presence of the savage monarch, he should cast down an umbrella or a walking stick, which would change into a lizard or a turtle; what would we think? Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president? And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat? If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? How small, how contemptible such a God appears!”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“she was a creature devoid of magic and yet, of all the strange a wondrous creatures in the world, the wand had chosen her”
― Elara Kandle

“Djinn. Ghuls. Sorcerers. Never had to worry about this in my grandfather's day.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo

“He told countless tales, all good, of crocodiles and ichneumons in Egypt, gazelles and ghouls in Persia, elephants and tigers in Burmah, deer and monkeys in Siam, badgers and foxes in China and sorcerers and enchanters everywhere. He spoke of the last two in as matter-of-fact a tone as of any of the others.”
― Edward Lucas White, The Stuff of Dreams: The Weird Stories of Edward Lucas White

“But the sorcerers can't do any harm, isn't that so?"

"They are men. All men can do harm.”
― Rosario Castellanos, Balún Canán