Quotes About Fascination

I don't need to try it. I tried it once, and I liked it very much. - Chiara

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Bruno Bettelheim, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, argues that the root of our failure to deal with violence lies in our refusal to face up to it. We deny our fascination with the "dark beauty of violence," and we condemn aggression and repress it rather than look at it squarely and try to understand and control it.

The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Thomas still loved eavesdropping

Despite everything he'd learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst. A movement up on the left wall of the South Door caught his attention. Startled, he reacted quickly, looking just in time to see a flash of silver. A patch of ivy shook

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

History has shown repeatedly that any obsession with the demonic will always lead to tragedy.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it [charm], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

A woman is a funny animal.

Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen... I adore hair!

His own cabinat of cuoriositie

Look now. It will never be more fascinating.

almost exquisite, the slight madness

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone so maddeningly beautiful as she was at that moment.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. - The Secret History

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than anything.

crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")