Quotes About Enthrallment

I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn.

This is ssssssssssssssssssoooooooo interesting, isn't it?" Snowfall strutted

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Maybe I can't help being attracted to her the same way flies can't help being attracted to carnivorous plants.

Rarely is the object of your attentions innately dull or compelling. Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

Novels and stories are not arguments; they set out not to convince, but to beguile.

I love all things magic.

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul

I've always been so attracted to magic.

I want to entertain.

I see myself as an entertainer.

There were things about these characters that sucked me in, regardless of and despite their being on Star Trek.

He was like an addict before a fix. Book freaks are like that, and not just old guys. Look at kids lining up for the latest installment of their favorite books. Stories, they're addictive." Gamache

Suddenly the guy looked up, his blue eyes catching mine. They made me think of the heart of a glacier, of how, when you touch dry ice with your bare skin, you cannot let go even if you try.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

Most people decide at some point that it is better … to be enthralled with what is impoverished or abusive than not to be enthralled at all and so to lose the condition of one's being and becoming.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

And then we were swept up, just like the La Scala performers say, playing con smania, with passion.

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.

We are easily seduced. It's magic lures us, and we are it's willing victims.