Quotes About Fascination

In some ways, mystery could make a person attractive.

I want to stay here and think about the secret door.' 'You can think about it on the way. That's the beautiful thing about the secret door. You can open it anywhere, any time.' In later years, the court ladies often laughed behind their fans at the Dauphin, saying cruelly that he could spend a whole day tapping his cane against his foot and staring into space. I knew, though, that he was building castles in the air.

I have been fascinated with fairy tales ever since I was first given a red leather-bound copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales when I was just seven years old. Of all the stories of beauty and peril and adventure within its pages, it was the story of 'Rapunzel' that resonated with me most powerfully.

Later, when I was a new mother, I recognized her somewhat awestruck fascination with me. When you are fully immersed in the daily care and quirks and habits of a small, dependent child, an older kid who is articulate, civilized, and capable of moving around in the world without getting itself killed can seem as supernatural as a wizard.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested

I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious

Despite my profound and continuing fascination with decadence and decay, with where dead humans lose their bones, I'm more stable than I've been in a very long time. But don't start imagining that everything's okay with me. Or the opposite.

Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the working against time...

before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

I remember the first time I looked into your eyes, it was like staring at the back of the moon, only to find that it shines too.

This is the dilemma, the contradiction we cannot resolve. We do not want to be them. Yet we are fascinated by them, because every detail tugs at a buried memory.

Do you like Vampires? I don't know I've never met one.

There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.

who wanted to see a monster, even if it meant that you got to tell everyone about it?

Dragons eat the things that they're curious about.

The extra line or two around her eyes only made them more fascinating; the touch of silver in her hair enhanced the blackness of the rest; and if she was a little heavier than she had been it made her body more voluptuous.

With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

Les gens du peuple dévisageaient toujours avec une curiosité fascinée les enfants qui seraient un jour leurs suzerains. Dans ce tribunal chargé de punir la violence, la rapine et la malhonnêteté, ces deux garçons innocents faisaient songer à des agneaux égarés dans une porcherie.

Philip thought; you have to do something to keep their attention.

My mother dislikes the work of governing, but I'm fascinated by it.

Gwenda sat with her back against a hornbeam tree and studied Wulfric and Annet with the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.

dislikes the work of governing, but I'm fascinated by it." Aldred put in: "Women sometimes do it well. King Alfred of England had a daughter called Ethelfled