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Quotes About Enchantment

Outside, it was coming on night. Twilight. "The magic time," his daddy called it, "the make-a-wish moment between the dark and the light.
~ Unknown
You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.
~ Deeanne Gist
Once in a while I lie there, as the television runs, and I read something wild and ancient from one of several collections of folktales I own. Apples that summon sea maidens, eggs that fulfill any wish, pears that make people grow long noses that fall off again. Then sometimes I get up and don my robe and go out into our quiet neighborhood looking for a magic thread, a magic sword, a magic horse.
~ Denis Johnson
He was so entranced, he was so charmed, so captivated-rolled out flat, dreamed into, shone upon-that when she said his name, English started to live.
~ Denis Johnson
I had to travel, to distract the enchantments gathered in my brain. Over the sea, that I loved as if she'd wash me clean of stain, I saw the cross of consolation rise. I had been damned by the rainbow. Happiness was my fatality, my remorse, my worm: my life would be forever too immense to be devoted to strength and beauty. O Happiness! its tooth, killing sweetly, warned me at cock-crow
~ Unknown
She had that light about her that turned people around her into moths.
~ Dennis Lehane
In our haste to modernize under the banner of science, we seem to have gone too far in casting out all mystery and magic from our world.
~ Unknown
Without even realizing it, Camille had fallen under the spell of the siren's call: the sound that contains the scent of berries, chocolate, and mint, that tastes of salt and oil and blood, that sounds like a heart's murmur, the passage of clouds, the call to prayers, the beloved's name, and a distant ringing in the ears.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Double, double toil and trouble," he chanted under his breath. "Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, in the caldron boil and bake. Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He couldn't recall what came next and abandoned the
~ Diana Gabaldon
the power and the danger of magic lie in the people who believe it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Snow was falling, and winter had come; the season of fire. Candles and hearth fire, that lovely, leaping paradox, that destruction contained but never tamed, held at a safe distance to warm and enchant, but always, still, with that small sense of danger.
~ Diana Gabaldon
In short, it stood an object of terror and delight!
~ Diana Gabaldon
the wards. They may assist with the distribution
~ Diana Gabaldon
crepuscle, the mysterious half-light that comes at both ends of the day, when the small secret things come out to feed. There
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's not difficult to be attracted to Rupert Penry-Jones.
~ Genevieve O'Reilly
I've always been so attracted to magic.
~ Sarah Jeffery
I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.
~ Jim James
I'm in my dream world.
~ Hunter Hayes
Elves are cool, man.
~ Orlando Bloom
momento en que la luna se descubrió e
~ Unknown
This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
'S wonderful! 'S marvelous—You should care for me!
~ Ira Gershwin
A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.
~ Irving Berlin