Quotes About Enchantment

To survive, a story must arouse wonder.

O beautiful one, you've robbed the minds of all people.

Magician, musician. Same thing. A little hocus pocus and a whole lot of faith, right?

I'm not interested in a world without magic.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I love love. I'm, like, obsessed with it.

Bruno Mars, I'm kind of obsessed with him.

And, most important of all, added the Mathemagician, here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you. He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own.

The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each projecting rock, each tree in a peculiar fashion, different from the way they looked by day. Everything seemed real but different than in the daytime. It was as if the world had a second face, a nocturnal face.

As he strode through the deserted city, he thought of the New Years of his childhood, before he was ten, before the Change, when the city had still glowed with the soft, deep enchantment of sugared angels spreading their sparkling wings in bakery windows, and bells whose limpid sounds rose like the sea at a moonlit tide, and glass ornaments turning slowly this way and that on dark tree branches, gathering in their reflections the whole wondrous, promise-filled world.

If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.

With the engine stalled, we would notice the deep silence reigning in the park around us, in the summer villa before us, in the world everywhere. We would listen enchanted to the whirring of an insect beginning vernal flight before the onset of spring, and we would know what a wondrous thing it was to be alive in a park on a spring day in Istanbul.

Mientras escribía sus cartas, el cuervo escudriñaba con la cabeza prácticamente inmóvil, contemplando con asombro maravillado la punta de la pluma, la tinta que se derramaba letra a letra sobre el papel y que iba dejando palabras y frases a su paso. Parecía como si el negro cuervo estuviera enamorado de Pakize .

Your Eyes Are Like Ensorcelled Arrows

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.

Danny North grew up surrounded by fairies, ghosts, talking animals, living stones, walking trees, and gods who called up wind and brought down rain, made fire from air and drew iron out of the depths of the earth as easily as ordinary people might draw up water from a well.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

She was tall, exotic, so very young she seemed to flutter.

It's like moving through a delicious fog.