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Quotes About Enchantment

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.
~ Charles Manson
I don't understand why this isn't enough for you. Why the world isn't enough for you. Why you are so obsessed with magic when you have all the wonder of humanity around you.
~ Charles Montgomery
All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.
~ Charles Morgan
Life was menial and lacked enchantment.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Charlie tipped her head up. "Are you sure? We're a simple people. No automobiles or fancy gadgets." "Simple?" She chuckled. "Ha! Worlds that think and kings that plot? Sandobbles and goblins, portals and two moons? You are sadly mistaken. Besides," she said, tracing the edge of his forewing with the tip of her finger. He shuddered against her. "There's magic here.
~ Cheryl Sterling
Water fell from the sky and dripped from the branches, streaming down the gully of the trail. I walked beneath the enormous trees, the forest canopy high above me, the bushes and low-growing plants that edged the trail soaking me as I brushed past. Wet and miserable as it was, the forest was magical—Gothic in its green grandiosity, both luminous and dark, so lavish in its fecundity that it looked surreal, as if I were walking through a fairy tale rather than the actual world.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I get so excited over sunsets and rainbows etc, when you see them it's like you can shut out the real world and envelop yourself in a beauty that almost makes it feel like fantasy.
~ Mrs. Ron Harris
Forest air is magical.
~ Terri Guillemets
I for one have always believed in the unicorn... The unicorn has managed to weave itself a very haunting reputation.
~ Jean Richardson
Hey, I like unicorns. Unicorns are just weaponized ponies.
~ Damon Suede, Bad Idea, 2013
Unicorns are just horny ponies.
~ Internet meme, c. 2014
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants – At Evening, it is not At Morning, in a Truffled Hut It stop upon a Spot...
~ Emily Dickinson, c. 1874
Wine is liquid stardust.
~ Terri Guillemets
When he looked up and saw me walking toward him, he winked, causing me to stop dead in my tracks and gape. Clearly, his winks were some sort of superpower, because I swear that if he asked me to jump from the roof of a tall building and then winked, I'd jump.
~ C.P. Smith, Property Of, 2015
Women are angels, wooing...
~ William Shakespeare
...I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of the mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers, made my head whirl with new emotion.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
I could see the moon a million times and it would never lose its magic. You could kiss me in a billion ways, every last one would be romantic.
~ Terri Guillemets
Helen All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the white hands. All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles, hating it deeper still when it grows wan and white, remembering past enchantments and past ills. Greece sees, unmoved, God's daughter, born of love, the beauty of cool feet and slenderest knees, could love indeed the maid, only if she were laid, white ash amid funereal cypresses.
~ H.D.
Welcome to Erehwyna!
~ Hal Duncan
THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Clarimonde sitzt am Fenster und spinnt. Fäden, lange, dünne, unendlich feine Fäden. Sie macht ein Gewebe daraus, ich weiß nicht, was es werden soll. Und ich kann nicht begreifen, wie sie dies Netz machen kann, ohne immer wieder die zarten Fäden zu verwirren und zu zerreißen. Es sind wunderliche Muster in ihrer feinen Arbeit, Fabeltiere und merkwürdige Fratzen.
~ Hanns Heinz Ewers
In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
They call it music, but it's just this side of magic.
~ Harold Jones