Genie Quotes

“Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“what did you think would happen—best case? She’ll forget about you when you return to Caliban, you know that. Or do you think she won’t wish, that you can stay here with her? That for the rest of her life, she’ll put you above getting whatever she wishes for? Even better—that for the rest of her life, she won’t slip up and say something like ‘I wish it would stop raining’? You can’t win this. In the end, you’ll be in Caliban. She’ll forget you. And whatever ‘friendship’ you think you have will be gone. Relationships are not for immortals. A bird and a fish may long for each other, but where could they live?”
― Jackson Pearce, As You Wish

“The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life.”
― Eldon Taylor

“Genie: Okay, fine. So what are your three wishes?

Marco: Only three? In the stories I heard, the genies granted unlimited wishes.

Genie: Ah, not again. Well, let me clarify this for you. I only provide the “Limited to three wishes” plan, also called the “Classic package”. There were certain gold and platinum plans offered in the past, which granted infinite wishes and where the genie practically stayed with the lamp-finder all their life. But those plans were discontinued around 2,300 years back.”
― Varun Sayal, Time Crawlers

“Some men may be unready
for the coming of the genie
who grants three wishes.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Sometimes you stay bottled up because you know the responsibility’s in your hands, rubbing you like a lamp, and you’re the only genie that can and must rise and expand in order to grant your every wish.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“The power I exert, I do so because I am wise, and clever, and know something of the turning of the world.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“Dandelions are the genies of the plant world.”
― Devon Voyles

“The genie leaned forward to whisper to them.
"Sorry. You guys seem like a nice couple."
"The sultan is my father," Jasmine snapped.
"Oh. Whoops. My bad. It's not so unusual, you know- old kings, young girls. That whole May-December thing. Not totally my fault."
"At least I won't be married to anyone against my will now. Not even Jafar," Jasmine said grimly.
"Yeah, how about we not give Mr. Revengey-pants here ideas?" the genie suggested archly. "There's a substantial legal and magical difference between forcing to love and forcing to marry."
He had a point. Jasmine kept her mouth shut.”
― Liz Braswell, A Whole New World

“Then he saw it. The feet of every man in the congregation were turned backwards at the ankles.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“They were taller than the tallest men in the village”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“a swirl of smoke trapped in a glass bottle, an odd unlabelled thing unknowingly put up for sale.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“Peoples desires were easy to read, clear as bottled glass and just as sturdy.”
― J.Y. Yang, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“Mena wondered if her grandmother, the djinn, had ever thought of reshaping the world so it was more amenable to her. A world of hot wind and bursting stars, where women walked strong and brown and proud over land that sang to their bones, where the fires that burned in their veins were lights in the firmament and not threats to be smothered into nothingness at all costs.”
― J.Y. Yang, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“A world of hot wind and bursting stars”
― J.Y. Yang, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“You have embraced silence. Your wings make no sound. Language is for prey, for what the wizard-nation hunts. You are not prey, not anymore.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“He told me my whole life happened because I got things other people weren't using, and since he's been gone I've lived my whole life on that same principle. He told me a lot of things, and the most important of those things is never, ever to use the word wish.”
― Kirsty Logan, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“He is a scrawny broomstick of a boy in dusky shalwar kameez with holes - filthy wild hair, bruised lips, skulking face.”
― Usman Malik, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“And now because you are converged, you rise. Through the eye of the narrowest tangle of root, shoot, and branch, past the tallest emerald treetops, up and up, gathering strength. A curlicue of mystery, a calligram of power, you wrap yourself around yourself and tornado to the Saigol mansion, quaking that mausoleum of a hatchery in your wake.”
― Usman Malik, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“You treat that Mama Abassi like your second mother," it had said. "But you don't ever wonder if she's just keeping you under control? Or even making use of your talents?”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“Zoals alle geniale mensen die van een grote gedachte bezeten zijn, liep Cochin het risico zijn landerijen te moeten verkopen.”
― Stendhal, Lucien Leuwen

“Being an angel feels pretty silly right now too - Alexis Darn”
― L. H. Westerlund, University Strange or My Life Amongst Academics

“Wir brauchen dich, Genie, aber du bist uns lastig. Wir möchten deine Bildsäulen um keinen Preis entbehren, Phidias, aber eigentlich ist es eine Frechheit von dir, ein so großer Künstler zu sein, und von dir, Themistokles, ein so großer Feldherr zu sein, und von dir, Aristides, so gerecht zu sein, und von dir, Sokrates, so weise zu sein, denn das alles sind wir nicht, und wir, das Volk, die Masse, der Durchschnitt, die Gewöhnlichen sind doch eigentlich diejenigen, auf die es ankommt. Jede eurer Taten ist für uns eine Beleidigung, denn jede beweist uns aufs neue, daß in euch mehr Schönheit, Edelmut und Verstand ist als in uns allen zusammengenommen. Wir wissen recht wohl, daß wir ohne euch nicht auskommen könnten, aber das hindert uns nicht, daß wir in euch nichts anderes erblicken als ein notwendiges Übel, das wir nur genau so lange ertragen werden, als wir es ertragen müssen." So dachten die Griechen, und so haben, wenn auch weniger klar und plastisch, alle Zeiten und alle Völker gedacht, insonderheit aber alle Demokratien.”
― Egon Friedell, Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit

“Liquid silver and silk...”
― Mahvesh Murad

“How is the Presidency treating you?"
"It sucks! Everyone hates me! Why does everyone hate me?"
"Because Man was bestowed with reason, and I can't circumvent free will."
"Buh?"
"Yeah, exactly.”
― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous

“They were the words she'd waited her entire life for, words of acceptance, of love, and Imogene knew this was finally her chance to hear them, her chance to be the daughter her father had always wanted, the daughter he'd lost when Chloe died. This time, she wouldn't fail. Not this time.”
― Megan Chance, The Portrait

“A dream is a voyage to the city of your treasure.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Die Physik ist die Naturwissenschaft, in der die meisten grundlegenden wissenschaftlichen Konzepte und fundamentalen Phänomene der Natur auf der Grundlage quantitativer Modelle und Gesetze beschrieben werden, um ihre Eigenschaften und ihr Verhalten in Bezug auf Materie und Energie sowie ihre Wechselwirkungen in Raum und Zeit zu erklären.”
― Daniel Wieser

“Change begins when you realize that there are no hidden or buried treasures.
No Santa Claus nor genie.
Just you and your determination to succeed.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Jasmine crossed the room to the balcony and opened the doors to find Aladdin floating in midair behind the railing, a mischievous grin on his face.
"Look who came back," he said, before soaring above her on a large Persian carpet woven in an intricate pattern of rich blues and gold.
"Magic Carpet!" Jasmine exclaimed. For a brief moment, her troubles faded from view as Carpet and Aladdin landed on the balcony beside her. Carpet bowed with a flourish, and Jasmine crouched down to hug the colorful fabric. It used its tassels to hug her back. "I thought you were with the Genie!"
"It seems the little fella knew we needed him," Aladdin said, handing Jasmine a folded piece of parchment from his vest pocket. The Genie's loopy blue handwriting filled the page:


Al and Jas,
Can you take this carpet off my hands? It's getting to be a real drag, just letting me walk all over it. (Ba-da-bum!)
For real, though, a little bird told me that you could use a pick-me-up. Since Carpet can literally take care of that, he's yours. Just save me a couple weeks a year for my annual World Carpet Tour, okay?
Good luck, kids, and know I'm always rooting for you,
G


Jasmine hugged the parchment to her chest.
"Thank you, Genie." She met Aladdin's eyes. "It's amazing, isn't it, how he always knows?"
"It must come with the all-powerful-greatness package.”
― Alexandra Monir, Realm of Wonders