Quotes About Enchantment

It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over - and not the faintest clue how it's done. The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring trick, it's a miracle,"...

The breath of the enchanted wind mingles the fresh scent of the lilacs with the fragrance of the past.

a classic children's book from Catherynne Valente.

My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.

The other night I discovered that 50 feet from our house,through a break in the trees, you can see St Michael's Tor at Glastonbury...There is no question that there is magic here and all kinds of magic. (Bruton 1959)

Dessie was not beautiful. Perhaps she wasn't even pretty, but she had the glow that makes men follow a woman in the hope of reflecting a little of it.

I always believe in the magical things ...if you don't believe, you can't receive.

The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.