Quotes About Enchantment

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman ....

or else we contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes ...

y todo, hervidero de abejas, velos, nubes de humo, le parecía a Cosimo un encantamiento que aquel hombre trataba de suscitar para desaparecer de allí, borrarse, volar lejos, y luego, renacer siendo otro, o en otro tiempo, o en otro lugar. Pero era un mago de poca monta, porque reaparecía siempre igual, acaso chupándose una yema del dedo pinchada.

Calabrian storytelling exhibits a rich, colorful, complex imagination, but within it the logic of the plot is often lost, leaving only the unraveling of the enchantment.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Een verlangen was het om alles waar zij naar keek in je op te zuigen, om niets te vergeten, geen moment van deze wereld die haar wereld was geworden: koel, helder, ondoorgrondelijk.

We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we cannot be satisfied by them; we know too much even in oblivion. Fallow knowledge troubles our sleep. We lie under the prickling enchantment of the image carved into our hearts, which is stronger than the counterspell and can never be quite scratched out.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

Music . . . . A magic beyond all we do here!

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Swish and flick.

Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here

Alick. What is Charm, exactly, Maggie? Maggie. Oh it's - it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If y ou have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

star-topped wand!

These are the Fairy Tale Fairies," said Hannah with a beaming smile. "These four are Julia the Sleeping Beauty Fairy, Eleanor the Snow White Fairy, Faith the Cinderella Fairy, and Lacey the Little Mermaid Fairy." "Hello," said Rachel and Kirsty. "And these three are Rita the Frog Princess Fairy, Gwen the Beauty and the Beast Fairy, and Aisha the Princess and the Pea Fairy," Hannah finished.

revolving bookcase, next to the vase.