Quotes About Enchantment

she had enormous eyes and a laugh that pealed thrillingly in the twilight.

The life of the Spanish discoverers was one long day-dream. Illusion after illusion chased one another like the bubbles which the child throws off from his pipe, as bright, as beautiful, and as empty. They lived in a world of enchantment.

how infinitely passionate a thing religion at its highest flights can be. Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, jealousy, like every other instinctive eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else.

From the Nazi firebrand dictator had come not brutal threats, as so many had expected, but sweetness and light. The world was enchanted.

Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?

It didn't drain me as I thought it might. Instead, it invigorated me. Such was love's magic—the giver gained more than the receiver.

What enchantment did my betrothed possess that made even enemies forget their ancient rivalries in their desire to make him happy?

Adoration is a powerful intoxicant.

If there's a magic pony in the story, chances are I'll read it.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.

Losing yourself in a book is the best

Chris Grabenstein

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.

She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult of easy answers is no longer possible. Enchantment always causes complications. He is wise to resist, as she is equally wise to press for a true connection and nothing less.

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

You let the fairies fox you while the devil Does you.

Knots were probably the earliest spells.

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

White is for witching, a colour to be worn so that all other colours can enter you, so that you may use them. At a pinch, cream will do.

I told her that magic spells only work until the person under the spell is really and honestly tired of it. It ends when continuing becomes simply too ghastly a prospect.