Quotes About Fascination

Right from the start, what I liked best about the analyst was that his office was a mess.

It's not like he kept the money. It's not like he needed it. I think he especially liked the idea that the star of the show might have already moved away or recently died and there was no way to know.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

Now Romeo is beloved, and loves again, Alike bewitched by the charm of looks.

I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.

Il vestito era quello che aveva trovato in fondo al secondo baule e che fin dall'inizio l'aveva attirata come la mela aveva attirato Eva.

She was a dark young woman, a little above average in height, dressed in a close-fitting blue riding habit, a pale blue bodice, and a small tricorn hat. Connoisseurs would have disagreed as to whether she was beautiful, but few men would have passed her without a second glance.

A big fly came down also and settled on a leaf close to her face; he had two round brown knobs on his head and at that range looked enormous, a prehistoric animal that had roamed the jungles of a forgotten world. First he stood on four front legs and rubbed the two back ones with sinuous ease up and down his wings, then he stood on the four back and rubbed the two front ones like an obsequious shopkeeper.

Lei chinò il capo per ascoltarlo. Jim notò che in qualunque ombra sedessero, c'era sempre una luce che cercava la pelle pallida e liscia della fronte di lei, la curva delle sue guance. Luce, c'era sempre luce per i suoi occhi.

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction

Alla fine, sotto la sporcizia che le copriva il viso, comparve un vago rossore.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

Justo castigo Que Connie Chasen sintiese recíprocamente por mí la atracción fatal que yo sentí por ella la primera vez que la vi, eso es un milagro sin precedentes.

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Loveable as he is, Lawrence is a hyperkinetic freak, and the world is far too full of marvels and joys for him to ever do anything except lunge and swerve toward whatever catches his eye.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.