User:The Magician

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ~ Caroline Gordon

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ~ José Ortega y Gasset

Books are a uniquely portable magic. ~ Stephen King

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. ~ Nora Roberts

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love. ~ Søren Kierkegaard in Works of Love [Kjerlighedens Gjerninger] (1847)