Accidental Magic Quotes

“Oh, magic isn’t for understanding up here.” She tapped her head. “All that logic will do you no good. You have to understand it here.” She held her palm to her heart. “That’s where magic really lives.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“From within came a purposefulness, a deep knowing. She was still that wild little girl that danced in the rain, even though the world had done its best to beat the joy and freedom out of her. She was sick of being a victim, at the mercy of fate, and now she understood that she didn’t have to be. Not anymore. It was time to wake up and take control of her life.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“Think not too much on the past. Dwell not too much on the future. The answer is in the present. That is very important.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“Does that seem like a criminal mastermind to you?”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“What kind of house tidies itself?” “The perfect house?” Rosemary suggested.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“Rosemary took a deep breath and breathed out slowly, just like the online anxiety videos told her to do, though those had not specifically envisioned a situation where one was holding an old lamp in preparation for confrontation with the musically inclined axe-wielding serial killer that her imagination was busy fabricating.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“Rosemary read the note through twice and then sighed, feeling even more guilty than before. Granny was mad and senile, and I didn’t even think to find out…I did nothing to help her.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“Why does life have to always get in the way of dreams?”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“Granny said pastels were what happened when colours gave up the will to live.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“I call upon the powers of the earth To protect the Thorn family, and give us strength I call upon the powers of the wind To keep us safe from harm outside and within I call upon the powers of fire To burn away the darkness, and never tire I call upon the powers of water To cleanse and purify, and make us stronger By the power of the ancient ones As I do will it shall be done By all the powers of land and sea As I do will, so mote it be!”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic

“figuring this wasn’t the time to relitigate the ‘why didn’t you just tell me?’ line.”
― Iris Beaglehole, Accidental Magic