Quotes About Enchantment

She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.

Nunca se había sentido digno de nada, y mucho menos de semejante mujer. Pero supo que iba a aprovechar mientras pudiera. Hasta que el hechizo se rompiera y todo volviese a ser ratones y calabazas.

The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.

The Realm of Fairy is a strange shadow land, lying just beyond the fields we know.

Raindrops are like fairy whispers.

The woods are full of them.

Garden fairies come at dawn, Bless the flowers then they're gone.

A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near.

Are those the magic fairy wands glistening on the tree or only winter icicles that I see?

There was no need for a term like 'magical thinking' in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you.

He says she is his émerveillement.

Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries.

For a moment Zeno feels that he might be able to speak it into existence: if he says exactly the right words, right now, like a magic spell, it will happen.

Violins, horns, drums, speeches—a mouth against a microphone in some faraway yet simultaneous evening—the sorcery of it holds him rapt.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! I wish they'd had books like this when I was young…

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

The magic's back, folks.

I can go on forever, Romania is so beautiful!