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Quotes About Enchantment

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
~ Alfred Noyes
Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own.
~ Algernon Blackwood
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Lo, this is she that was the world's delight.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
It feels a little dangerous, to be so close to fairy tale.
~ Ali Smith
The slightness of it gestures against the odds. It is like a magic spell.
~ Ali Smith
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
~ Alice Hoffman
this apocalyptic need for magic
~ Alice Notley
so fascinated I couldn't stop.
~ Alice Notley
and working with the same bewitched slightly off-hand look as the sea
~ Alice Oswald
The more I wonder, the more I love.
~ Alice Walker
Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave
~ Alison Croggon
Fairies weren't always pretty mites. That was just tales people told for babies.
~ Alison MacLeod
A friendly thing a shadow is, neither ugly nor unkind, a fantastic dancing friend.
~ Alison Uttley
Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in.
~ Allison Pearson
I feel like I'm caught in time, caught in a perfect moment inside a snow globe that maybe I'd beg my mom for at a gas station, and I can't find my breath, and my knees feel a little wobbly, and I try to remind myself to remember this moment, to hold on to it forever, to seal it up like we really are in that snow globe and to never let anything shatter the bubble that envelops us, that protects us from everything else around us in the outside world.
~ Allison Winn Scotch
But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.
~ Alyson Noel
It's the same talk we parted with when she left Enchantment just a few months earlier. More warnings about the dangers of cute boys- especially the cute ones, like Dace. In 'The World According to Jennika' boys like that live solely to sweet talk their way into your skinny jeans only to dump you once they've had their way.
~ Alyson Noel
La amé desde el primer segundo. ¿Cómo explicarlo? Nunca había pensado en amar nada. Nunca había imaginado que la belleza de alguien pudiera suscitar en mí sentimiento alguno. Y, no obstante, todo se había activado en el mismo instante en el que la vi por primera vez, con una inexorable autoridad: era la más hermosa, luego la amaba, luego se convertía en el centro del mundo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Tomber amoureux est le phénomène le plus mystérieux de l'univers. Ceux qui aiment au premier regard vivent la version la moins inexplicable du miracle : s'ils n'aimaient pas auparavant, c'était parce qu'ils ignoraient l'existence de l'autre.
~ Amelie Nothomb
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.
~ Johnny Gimble
There's something about wedding dresses that turn you into Cinderella a little.
~ Jedediah Bila