MAGIC WORDS Variations and Incantations: • I love you "[T]hose three magic words 'I love you' . . ." -- Sandra Merrill Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families (1997) In Literature: • "[T]he quivering lip and the agitated countenance of the one, and the quick-heaving bosom and the gushing eye of the other, as, from the long mute grasp they turned hurriedly away, constituted the only language that told the sensations of their hearts. It had never spoken before; but it had spoken distinctly now, revealing to them, for the first time, their own and each other's secret, and apprising them that the deep, unanalyzed, unacknowledged feeling, that had been sleeping and gathering strength in their attracted bosoms, had a name; and that its name was only to be found in the magic word, Love." -- Daniel P. Thompson, Locke Amsden; or, The Schoolmaster (1852) • "[H]e did manage to say the magic word, 'love.'" -- Marilyn Anderson, Never Kiss a Frog (200 ) • "The magic of love! It softened, not for the first time, her heart towards all humanity." -- Norman Douglas, South Wind (1917) • "And yet there it was: The Word: The Magic Word: Love." -- John Rechy, City of Night (196 ) • "The reader can now relish the Cardinal's action in underlining the magic word 'love.'" -- United States Catholic Historical Society, Historical Records and Studies (1916) • "That magic word.... Shall I tell you what love is, Maskull?" -- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) • "The magical word which shall break the bars of the prisons where the chains of the slaves are heard is Love." -- Georg Ebers, A Thorny Path, Volume 2 (1892) Lumos Origins: Lumos is from the Latin word meaning "light" (lumen). In Literature: • Lumos is a spell for conjuring light from a wand in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (200 ).