Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.

Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.

Your destiny is to find the truth.

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped.

Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, " Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic.

A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.

Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic.

Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind.

Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler

Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

Remembering that moment stirs something inside -- anger, at first, and then a deep, hollow sadness that ripples through me in its own spiderweb pattern.

Space tourism is God's way of telling you you aren't spending enough on lap dances, baccarat and cocaine.

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

The very rich only admire themselves