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Quotes About Fascination

There's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.
~ Julian Barnes
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favourite perversion?
~ Julian Barnes
Margarita m?gdavo sakyti, kad yra dvi r?šys moter?: tos, kurios matomos kiaurai, ir tos, kurios nešioja paslapt?. Ir kad tai yra svarbiausia, k? vyrai išsyk pajunta, ir svarbiausia, kas juos patraukia arba ne. Vienus traukia vieno tipo moterys, kitus kito. Margarita - man nereikia to sakyti - buvo kiaurai matoma, bet kartais ji pavyd?davo toms, kurios nešiojo paslapt? ar apsimesdavo jos apgaubtos.
~ Julian Barnes
This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always fascinates me.
~ Julian Fellowes
When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
~ Julianna Baggott
I have learned that everyone else in the world is boring except you.
~ Julie Anne Long
He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger.
~ Julie Anne Long
Beautiful. Jules once thought he'd understood what the word meant. He now believed it overused. Some word needed to be kept in reserve for the rare, the arresting, the surprising . . . the magical. Or a new one invented.
~ Julie Anne Long
A girl could forget her precise location in the universe when a man looked at her with eyes like those.
~ Julie Anne Long
He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.
~ Julie Anne Long
He just hadn't expected to have his equilibrium roughly jostled by a pair of blue eyes this evening. He couldn't remember ever seeing eyes quite that color before. So achingly lovely they made him restless. He felt oddly as though he needed to do something about them.
~ Julie Anne Long
She turned to him as though he were the sun and she a sunflower.
~ Julie Anne Long
When she drew near, the rich musk of him wrapped her again: shaving soap, ale, and that delicious, darker something--- him . It might as well have been opium for what it did to the run of her thoughts.
~ Julie Anne Long
She was a joy to watch, a nightmare to protect
~ Julie Garwood
Me gusta ver cómo se esfuerza por mantenerse sobria y pálida y por parecer fría. En esas ocasiones hay en ella algo tan seductor que desafía la descripción.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
Her eyes, nose, hands, feet... Each part was a supreme delicacy, and I was insatiable.
~ Junichirô Tanizaki
Los chinos, por su parte, aman también el jade, pero es que quizás seamos los orientales los últimos que sentimos fascinación por estos pedruscos de aspecto extrañamente turbio, en los que parece que haya cuajado un aire viejo, de siglos, piedras que encierran en lo más profundo un brillo opaco, como estancado.
~ Junichirô Tanizaki
It was as if, without realizing it, I had been completely disarmed by her legs.
~ K?b? Abe
Más que de la mujer, el hombre tiende a enamorarse de los fragmentos y detalles de las cosas.
~ K?b? Abe
Wonder, fear, discovery, suspicion, hesitation, fascination, curiosity—all were crammed into his little eyes...
~ K?b? Abe
Inspecting? What do you mean? I don't understand. I'm collecting insects. My specialty is sand and insects. What? Collecting insects. Insects. Insects.I catch them like this! Insects?
~ K?b? Abe
Day after day they'd waited for Ryoji to be taken away for his tests. Then in the brilliant light of day Kaoru would lay Reiko down on the bed, hike up her skirt, pull down her panties, and examine her sex organ. It was no more than one organ of the many that made up her body, but he found it inexplicably fascinating. His love for her had endowed it with inestimable value.
~ K?ji Suzuki
But what Jane hadn't known about Michael Hurst until the day she stepped into his tent was that this adventurous, driven, gruff, brilliant explorer was also handsome. Blink-twice-and-try-to-breathe-and-still-think-you're-seeing-an-angel handsome.
~ Karen Hawkins
God save her from a man with green eyes. It was like trying to do complex math while your favorite song played in the background.
~ Karen Hawkins