History Quotes / AddictiveMagic

->Few mention this to their students along with the more traditional warnings, but sorcery is addictive. Once you see someone do something that cannot be done - once you taste ''real magic'' - [[CantStayNormal you can never go back]]. This addiction bites both ways, of course: it gives us the enthusiasm and motivation we need for the endless studying and practice, the incredible effort of will that is sorcery. Yet it also leads some of us to [[DealWithTheDevil make bargains with devils, demons and far stranger things in the rush to learn more]].
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Sorcerer (revised''

->The Worm of Magic had uncoiled inside my mind and was begging to be unleashed, promising to extinguish my panic. Magi had never determined if the Worm was real - the urgings of a living magic wanting to be used - [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane or an imaginary personification]] of magic's effect on the human body, but in any case, the seduction to use magic was a palpable need, and the more you used it, the more holes the Worm ate through a magus' self-control. Like a leaky bucket riddled with woodworm, sooner or later [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity most of us gave in and let the magic flow]]. That was the beginning of the end - there was no patching over holes in self-control if the entire bottom of the bucket fell out.
-->--''Literature/TheTraitorGod'' by Cameron Johnston

-->--''The Traitor God,'' by Cameron Johnston

->The Worm of Magic had uncoiled inside my mind and was begging to be unleashed, promising to extinguish my panic. Magi had never determined if the Worm was real - the urgings of a living magic wanting to be used - [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane or an imaginary personification]] of magic's effect on the human body, but in any case, the seduction to use magic was a palpable need, and the more you used it, the more holes the Worm ate through a magus' self-control. Like a leaky bucket riddled with woodworm, sooner or later [[WithGeatPowerComesGreatInsanity most of us gave in and let the magic flow]]. That was the beginning of the end - there was no patching over holes in self-control if the entire bottom of the bucket fell out.

->''"The reason you treat magic like a drug, is because the people that taught it to you act like ''drug dealers''. They buy it and they sell it, and they fight and they fuck for it."''

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Sorcerer (revised''

-->--'''''Mistress West''', Series/EmeraldCity''

-->-- '''Chaplain Richard''', ''Series/TheMagicians2016''