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“Kaz snorted. " So you don't think I'm a demon any more?"
"I know you're a demon, but your tricks are human."
"Some people see a magic trick and say "Impossible!" They clap their hands, turn over their money, and forget about it ten minutes later. Other people ask how it worked. They go home, get into bed, toss and turn, wondering how it was done. It takes them a good night's sleep to forget all about it.
And then there are the ones who stay awake, running through the trick again and again, looking for that skip in perception, the crack in the illusion that will explain how their eyes got duped; they're the kind who won't rest until they've mastered that little bit of mystery for themselves. I'm that kind."
"You love trickery."
"I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native language.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I offer a kiss, my bed, my body. And then, for my own trick, I disappear.”
― Madeline J. Reynolds, Illusions

“No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“There," he said. "That's a coin trick for you." Shadow, who had been watching closely, put his head on one side. "I need to know how you did it."

"I did it," said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, "with panache and style. That's how I did it." He laughed, silently, rocking on his heels, his gappy teeth bared.

"Yes," said Shadow. "That is how you did it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“The mind is a curious thing, Abby. We see what we want to see, we hear what we're hoping to hear. The one thing we all do well is fool ourselves.”
― Shelley Peterson, Stagestruck

“Why look for a prince
when frogs are much
more common?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

“The USA claims to be the greatest nation on earth, but routinely engages in dirty tricks with the poor, sick and elderly to deny them their benefits.”
― Steven Magee

“The magician isn’t just performing sleights-of-hand but is also guiding our thinking by what’s called “magician’s patter.â€� The magician explains what’s happening. Of course, the magician isn’t saying what’s really happening, but the magician is using words and body language to trick our minds and make us think something is happening when it isn’t happening. In the same way, the devil, the culture, and our sinful flesh work to influence the way we interpret our experiences. Some of the tricks are extremely effective. Some of the tricks deliberately manipulate us. Other tricks are just natural deceptions.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“gentle and innocent as wolves
as tricky as a prince”
― Gary Snyder, Turtle Island

“The tricks always collapse in the way of knowledge.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Come on... now and my mind plays tricks with me...”
― Deyth Banger, The Life of One Kid 2

“Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

“He leaned in and kissed her. His lips were dry, and tasted of gritty stone and dust. Alice's fingers curled so hard against the book that they ached, and after a moment or two she closed her eyes.
It seemed like an age before he pulled away. Her lips tingled, as though he'd passed on an electric charge.
"I'm sorry," he said, with a lopsided grin. "It's part of the spell."
Alice had a single moment to be furious before the music of the Siren rose all around her, a quiescent orchestration building to an unexpected crescendo. As her mind drifted away on that exquisite, all-encompassing melody, the last thing she felt were his hands on hers, gently tugging the book from her slackening fingers.”
― Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library

“If god were inclined
to punish someone
just for being the way
he created them, it would
be punishment enough

to insert that innocent
soul inside the womb
of a native Indianan.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

“I've decided if
being a real man means
smashing someone
in the face or turning
your back on a person

because of their sexuality,
I'll just stay a girl.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

“Russian Dolls: One excellent thing about being human is that we're fast learners. When we find a trick that works, we practice it, even if the skill means being better at avoiding karmic homework than facing or resolving it.”
― Helen S. Rosenau, The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier

“politics â€�
some verbal tics
of poly-tricks”
― Munia Khan

“The best trick a salesperson can ever pull is to create an illusion of choice to the customers, but the magic lies in making them choose your choice as theirs.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“What tame, memory-dependent work I was doing. How polite my poems were, how still they sat, how representational. We poets talked about craft, but what we meant were tricks and illusions.”
― Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

“If you have endured long in an endeavor, you have a long leash to mature in it. The expertise and ‘tricksâ€� should be at your fingertips; where expertise fails, ‘tricksâ€� come to the rescue.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The tricks always collapse itself in the way of the knowledge”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The city has a way of tricking people into honesty, or honest sounding lies. It is the noise, the crowds, squeezing things from deep inside you that you assumed would be hidden beneath the honk of a cab. You breathe in the vapor rising from manholes and the unceasing petrichor and cough out something as foolish as “I love youâ€� to someone you don’t yet.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“Love does not know the tricks. If it is so, it is not Love. Be wise to stay away from that, and go ahead.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Politics is usually not an ethics contest.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“[...] the old commander's trick of remaining silent and staring in thought. Stiff back. Strong posture. Outwardly in control, even if you're one step from collapsing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Not all tricks are bad.”
― A.D. Aliwat

“If you try to reach your longings with violence or tricks, they usually lose their magic.”
― Radapar

“Pretty faces have distracted incoming hands ready to stab. Sex has disguised arguments. Politeness has prevented confrontation. Laughing has slowed down revelation. Emotions have been misinterpreted as agreements. Judgment has hampered our listening. Perhaps, for now, we are more accurately defined by what we say or think and not how we seem or look.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Using trickery on the trickster to mend their ways, is not trickery, but the rightful use of intelligence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“You can use dirty legal tricks to deny my government disability payments and I can use research, discovery and the internet to shut your toxic enterprise down.”
― Steven Magee