The Mage & the Magpie Quotes

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”‌—‌Barbara Kingsolver Copyright”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“completely invisible”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“What will we do first?” Tabitha asked her. They were soaring high above the castle, descending in lazy loops as Tabitha slid from one warm updraft to another. Tabitha’s starlings glided around them like a halo.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Chapter Three In which Hugo spies, sneezes, and walks through secret passageways”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“It didn’t take long before he found her. She was unconscious‌—‌dead,”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Chapter Two In which someone is very nearly eaten”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Dad,” Brinley said at length, thinking of the question she had meant to ask him, “how did you find me?” “Hmm? Oh. In a basket, on the steps of the old church at Morley,”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Giant nighttime bells are nothing to trifle with.” “You’re making fun of me!” “No,” he said, growing serious. “No, I’m really not.” The corner of his mouth twitched. “Well, maybe I am a little.” He gave her a significant look. “Actually, it happened to me once.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“She was half lying down, half sitting up, with an impressive amount of drool pooled beside her face. Evidently she had fallen asleep with her head on her hand, elbow propped against her knee, and then face-planted some time later. Her father was poking her. “Wake up, drool-face.” She lifted her head but stayed sprawled, wiping her face with one hand and batting him away with the other. “Bad Daddy,” she said weakly. He stopped, then burst out laughing.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“She was half lying down, half sitting up, with an impressive amount of drool pooled beside her face. Evidently she had fallen asleep with her head on her hand, elbow propped against her knee, and then face-planted some time later. Her father was poking her. “Wake up, drool-face.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“phantom,”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“a crush”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“I am terrified that I am going to mess it up.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“the wind was his business.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Austin J. Bailey.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Those who seek understanding find it, though not always in the places they expect.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“He had followed the creature through the mist at the top of the high, arched bridge and down the other side into a dark and tangled forest which bears a name so old and evil that it cannot be written.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“They had stopped talking many years ago on a day not unlike this one. The memory was still painful to him.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“*** Archibald”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Hugo”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“far from her world. In that place, several days before Brinley was awakened by the”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“She got back into bed and then leapt out again when she remembered what had awakened her. The noise! It had been so loud!”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Space was all around them, stretching out like an ocean of silent wind‌—‌ribboned with color and starlight.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“excitement.”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie

“Chapter Sixteen In which there is an astonished goat B”
― Austin J. Bailey, The Mage & the Magpie