Quotes About Fascination

There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till he is dead—and even then Doctor, did you ever hear of the miserable gringos on Azuera, that cannot die?

There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.

The snake had charmed me

It was love at first sight.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life

The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.

was in love with Briscoe

She was in love with love.

Ella es muy bonita, ¿verdad? ¿Bonita? ¡Es la criatura más hermosa con que yo haya tropezado en mi vida! Eso decía mi corazón.

What is it about you that demolishes my mind?

she'd only looked at him for a second before she'd walked out of the woods, Jenny had registered the odd light in his eyes and

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

He was smoking hot. As in H-O-T-T, hott. I'd never understood until that moment why girls insisted on adding an extra t. This guy was extra-t-worthy.

Far sentire qui quel che succede là era la sua unica passione: la principessa Ubiquità in persona. (Liesl Fraenkel)

L'immagine di Dracula è particolarmente calzante per la trasfusione di sangue. Sono su un letto di ospedale, riempito goccia a goccia del sangue di un altro. Avrei preferito filarmela durante la notte, dopo aver dissanguato tre infermiere, ma il vampirismo ha perso fascino da quando è stato legalizzato.