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Quotes About Enchantment

Sophie lut: « Va prendre l'étoile tombée Et fais enfanter la mandragore, cette racine pure. Dis-moi où sont donc les années écoulées Ou qui du diable le sabot fend. Apprends-moi à entendre des sirènes le chant Ou à retenir de l'envie les morsures Et trouve céans Quel bon vent Permet à l'esprit honnête d'aller de l'avant. Décide de ce qu'il en est Et le second couplet toi-mémé écriras. »
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Em primeiro lugar, leia sempre tudo cuidadosamente. A forma deve lhe dizer muito, quer seja pra auto-realização ou autodescoberta ou simples encantamento, ou um misto de ação e fala. Quando decidir isso, reveja tudo e defina que partes significam o que dizem e que partes são incluídas como quebra-cabeça. Você está chegando aos tipos mais poderosos.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
seen without clothes on. Their skins were greenish
~ Diana Wynne Jones
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
~ Diane Ackerman
magic does not live in the unwilling soul.
~ Diane Duane
Her eyes were too full of beauty to leave room for anything so mundane as intelligence.
~ Diane Setterfield
Las palabras tienen algo especial. En manos expertas, manipuladas con destreza, nos convierten en sus prisioneros. Se enredan en nuestros brazos como tela de araña y en cuanto estamos tan embelesados que no podemos movernos, nos perforan la piel, se infiltran en la sangre, adormecen el pensamiento. Y ya dentro de nosotros ejercen su magia.
~ Diane Setterfield
Was it a miracle? It was as if they had dreamt of a pot of gold and woken to find it on their pillow. As if they had told a tale of a fairy princess and finished it only to find her sitting in a corner of the room, listening.
~ Diane Setterfield
Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.
~ Diane Setterfield
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic. When I at last woke up to myself, I could only guess what had been going on in the darkness of my unconsciousness.
~ Diane Setterfield
The incendiary magic she possessed was so strong she could set fire to water if she wanted to badly enough.
~ Diane Setterfield
Decorative gestures add romance to a life.
~ Don DeLillo
I want to immerse myself in American magic and dread.
~ Don DeLillo
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
~ Donald Miller
Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary
~ Donna Tartt
She cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary.
~ Donna Tartt
The shock of first seeing a birch tree at night, rising up in the dark as cool and slim as a ghost. And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.
~ Donna Tartt
Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.
~ J.D. Robb
If you believe in magic,' I (Kate) said. 'If it exists,' said Joanna, 'it doesn't matter a toss whether you believe in it or not.
~ Unknown
Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead.
~ J.M. Barrie
Do you believe in fairies? If you believe clap your hands. Don't let Tinker die.
~ J.M. Barrie
Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
~ Jack Vance
All books have magical properties.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
was low in the sky, and the woods seemed to be sprouting strange
~ Unknown