Quotes About Enchantment

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

The Young Army was crazy. Marcia was Magyk.

waiting for the spell to end, as all spells must.

Both Septimus and Beetle knew enough to recognize a jinnee when they saw one, and Wolf Boy knew quite enough to recognize something extremely weird.

Cerys watched her open the door and struggle to squeeze inside. "Zelda?" Cerys called. "Yes?" puffed Aunt Zelda, poking her head out of the cupboard with some difficulty. "It is possible to eat an Enlarging Spell without realising it, do you suppose?" Aunt Zelda looked puzzled. "I shouldn't think so," she said. "Why?" "No reason. I just wondered.

Once she was safely in the Unstable Potions and Partikular Poisons cupboard,

From her pocket Karamander took a vial of black liquid labelled: "Headbanger. Maximum strength." With a long pipette she dropped the liquid into Oraton-Marr's mouth, then she held his nose closed until he swallowed it... "He is asleep. He will sleep for seven days. And when he wakes he will have the worst headache imaginable. I have something that will cure it if he wishes to ask me. But he will have to come to me in person and ask very, very nicely indeed.

Boy 412 reading Thaumaturgy and Sortilage: Why Bother? with avid interest.

witch's brilliant blue eyes.

Ze werden verwelkomd door een snerpende gil. Marcia sprong op van haar plaats aan de tafel in de Geheime Kamer en liet een dik boek met voorspellingsformules op haar voet vallen... 'Septimus!' krijste Marcia. Ze schopte de voorspellingsformules een eind weg en stoof naar de Spiegel. 'O, Septimus, Septimus!' Zodra hij uit de Spiegel tevoorschijn stapte sloeg ze haar armen om hem heen en zwierde hem in de rondte, tot zijn grote verbijstering, want Marcia deed niet aan knuffelen.

Ohelpuhebteenkát! - Stanley, tegen Jenna

Een draak draagt de Prinses in zijn armen en jij vergéét dat? - Marcia, tegen Septimus

Nee, Nick, het is Ongezien, ongehoord, geen gefluister, niet een woord. En je moet het je ook voorstellen. Het heeft geen zin die spreuk af te raffelen als een demente papegaai. - Septimus

Goeie genade!' riep tante Zelda, 'wat heb je daar nou?' 'Haal dat ding van me af!' schreeuwde Septimus... Jenna zat doodstil en staarde verbijsterd naar een net uitgekomen draakje.

Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

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?

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.