Quotes About Enchantment

A solitary sorceress: her shadow is still visible on the eve of the new moon.

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.

Sometimes, when you go on foot there, when you walk in the woods near the old pagan temples, you feel something very strong. It is like the energy you feel in a church, or the energy you feel when a boy and a girl are in love and touch hands for the first time.

She's magic, Cassandra. A single flower blooming in an endless desert.

He was seduction in motion

land." "There was some . . . strangeness . . . about the way the Rose

I loved him for his beauty. As I would again if he came near. Beauty convinces.

Nothing but magic is really like magic, when it comes right down to it.

as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...

to be loved and found magical, like a secret…

the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.

He turns the key. Presto! It opens this book of odd tales which transform the Brothers Grimm. Transform? As if an enlarged paper clip could be a piece of sculpture. (And it could.)

In spiritu et veritate ibi est magicae in omnibus

There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.

Everything and everyone was so hungry. The monster. The Barrow folk, buying everything up when danger lurked. The City people, clutching at pretty little enchanted things. Substituting magic for people. The shining people's ancestors, when the plague threatened, ignoring the warnings of the wizards, assuring themselves magic would keep them safe as they themselves brought death upon the entire island.

the small garden was just a slip of earth on the side of the house, bit it seemed like its own universe. The sweet, sharp scent of hundreds of flowers greeted her. Even in the night their colors sang it was a thick, lush blanket of color- luxurious purple and electric blue and sunshine yellow and cheery red. It was like a movie version of an enchanted harden, gorgeous, vivid, and too beautiful to be real. She could dive into the purple of the violets and live there.

I am left with the magic, the name, the heart miraculously touched.

Ivy had been practicing to become a witch for a long time. She was going to be one when she grew up

Deep within the winter forest among the snowdrift wide You can find a magic place where all the fairies hide....

I've always done magic as a hobby. I've done it professionally, too.

It was during that term that I began to realise that Sebastian was a drunkard in quite a different sense to myself. I got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love of the moment, and the wish to prolong and enchant it; Sebastian drank to escape.

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.