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Quotes About Fascination

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
~ Thomas Harris
Their idle glances walked on him with many tiny feet.
~ Thomas Harris
You don't even dislike him all the time, hard as that is to believe. Then, if you're lucky, out of the stuff you know, part of it plucks at you, tries to get your attention. Always tell me when something plucks, Starling.
~ Thomas Harris
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Don't you like the sight of a coffin? I really do. I find it a handsome piece of furniture, even empty; when someone is lying in it, then, in my eyes, it is positively sublime.
~ Thomas Mann
Marusja of the ready laugh, the orange-scented handkerchief, the bosom fair to outward eye.
~ Thomas Mann
She couldn't stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence in tears. They seemed to know what she wanted, even if she didn't.
~ Thomas Pynchon
They lived for different futures, but they were each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Cyprian was captivated by eyes, but only by those that looked away, with either indifference or active distaste. It was not enough for her to return his gaze. She must then direct her own to other matters. It sent him into a swoon. It got him through that day and part of the next sometimes.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Reader, she bit him.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
~ Katherine Mansfield
They had met at the club and Bertha had fallen in love with her, as she always did fall in love with beautiful women who had something strange about them.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Only boring people are bored.
~ Katherine Neville
That's why an Angelina Jolie is always going to win over a Winona Ryder. Fuckups are more interesting.
~ Kathleen DeMarco
They seemed to be removed from her by more than just language. French people leading French lives. Why was it that anything you couldn't readily understand became mysterious and glamorous?
~ Kathleen Tessaro
She had never seen anyone like him before in her life. The clothes he wore, the sound of his voice, the expression in his eys, all made her feel that she had had z moomentary glimpse into another world - and she longed passionately to see it again, if only for a brief while.
~ Kathleen Winsor
She was truly beautiful, though that was not what drew him to want to know more about her. This woman of wealth and privilege had something else about her—and inner beauty—which he couldn't quite define.
~ Kathleen Y'Barbo
May gasped, wavered on her feet for a moment, then settled a wistful gaze on Cass's hair. "Oh my, ye have a lot, don't ye?" And her fingers began to twitch. Cook
~ Kathryne Kennedy
I watched, baffled, as Will Speckman floated like an angel, drifting down to the marina dock a hundred yards away. My mind suggested all kinds of crazy answers. The Trinity can fly. Will Speckman is actually a bird. Gravity has taken the night off.
~ Kathy Reichs
Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause.
~ Katie MacAlister
I looked at Raphael. He looked back at me.Several parts of me that weren't on public display brought out their pompoms and began cheering.
~ Katie MacAlister
It was his turn for a little bit of smoke to escape him. I leaned into Gabriel and asked softly, "Can you do that too?" His eyes never left Kostya, but his lips parted slightly. A tiny curl of smoke emerged. For some reason, it delighted me, but that delight was short-lived
~ Katie MacAlister
I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and courageous, and you do not suffer fools...
~ Katie MacAlister
I've never seen such a beautiful and noble person before. I'll capture you…and take you hooome!
~ Katsura Hoshino