“You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.”

“What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.”

“I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.”

“I am not talking about immortality now," Perenelle said, her Breton accent thickening. "We have lived for centuries, Nicholas, centuries. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.”

“The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.”

“But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.”

“The day we stop learning is the day we die.”