Quotes About Fascination

The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk—as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.

Before one knows it, he's nearly through with the book and then must continue so as to 'find out what happens at the end.' These are the sort of book of which publishers say 'Once you pick it up, you can't put it down,'and one of the major reasons you don't want to put it down is that you don't ever want to pick it up again.

Ruth had always been fascinated by the meandering currents of his mind

You look like a cat touching a mirror," said Carol, watching me. "You know the way they look at themselves and then reach out a paw as if they can't believe it's glass and not another cat?

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

What is her name? I don't know. I know her eyebrows.

A man under the enchantment of love," the stowaway thought, "is a man easily distracted and led.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

Oh ! madame, si vous êtes si instamment attendue, permettez-moi de m'éloigner, car il me serait impossible de vous parler en ce moment. Je suis incapable de rassembler deux idées ; votre vue m'a ébloui. Je ne pense plus, j'admire.

Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.

o encanto indefinido que está para a mulher como o perfume está para a flor e o sabor para o fruto. Porque não basta uma flor ser bela, nem um fruto ser agradável à vista

I have to admit that my historical work is my favourite occupation. When I go back to the past, I forget the present. I walk free and independently through history, and forget that I am a prisoner.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

There's a little witch in all of us.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Books may well be the only true magic

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.

make you want things you hadn't even known existed.

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

When a star reaches for you, it is difficult to look away.