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Quotes About Fascination

He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We, in games, are not fascinated by death, its nearness and its avoidance. We are fascinated by victory and we replace the avoidance of death by the avoidance of defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
O]ur willingness to engage that mystery keeps desire alive. Faced with the irrefutable otherness of our partner, we can respond with fear or with curiosity. We can try to reduce the other to a knowable entity, or we can embrace her persistent mystery. [...] Eroticism resides in the ambiguous space between anxiety and fascination. We remain interested in our partners; they delight us, and we're drawn to them.
~ Esther Perel
Maybe he is interested in some subject, but it isn't a subject we teach here
~ Andrew Morton
I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt was amazed by her arsenal of smiles.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Lytta Neyd byla žena, s níž by jenom absolutní pomatenec chtÄ›l navázat vztah na delÅ¡í dobu než na jednu dvÄ› noci. Je zajímavé, že právÄ› takovéto ženy neovladatelnÄ› pÃ…â"¢itahovaly zástupy muž? usilujících o mnohem delÅ¡í vztahy.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Es gibt nun mal solche Bücher, die schon auf wenigen Seiten, in wenigen Sätzen eine so starke Welt evozieren, dass uns die "Fortsetzung" nicht mehr interessiert, die weitere Lektüre überflüssig oder gar unmöglich erscheint. Man hat einfach nicht mehr die Kraft dazu. Natürlich kommen wir irgendwann darauf zurück, um die nächste Dosis Rauschgift – oder Gift – zu konsumieren.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
It was beautiful, and it was terrible, and it was almost indescribably eerie.
~ Andy Remic
Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.
~ Angela Carter
When I'd first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior." -flesh and the mirror
~ Angela Carter
I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.
~ Angela Carter
Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.
~ Anita Brookner
What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
~ Ann Brashares
But people often had a voyeur's excitement when they were close to a violent death, as if it conferred a degree of celebrity on them.
~ Ann Cleeves
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
~ Mel Brooks
Being a nerd is not about what you love; it's about the way you love it.
~ Wil Wheaton
For whatever reason, you gravitate to certain subjects, and I read a lot of history.
~ Aaron Dessner
I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.
~ Rod Stewart
Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
~ Princess Eugenie of York
I have always been a big fan of Salman... whenever I see him or meet him, I choke.
~ Daisy Shah
I'm usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, 'Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It's amazing,' I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for 'Stranger Things,' I couldn't resist. I had to watch it.
~ Sadie Sink
Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!
~ Sophie Turner
From that night on, wherever Barney and I went UFOs paced us.
~ Betty Hill