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Quotes About Enchantment

I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...
~ John Geddes
evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...
~ John Geddes
yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...
~ John Geddes
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.
~ John Hodgman
you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips
~ john j geddes
I met a lady in the meadsFull beautiful, a faery's child;Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild.
~ John Keats
Each time you call me home in a sweet refrain, Saying things will change, you'll take away the pain, Then we flashback to the first time you put your spell on me, You envelope me, you feel good as hell to me
~ John Legend
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
~ Elinor Glyn
She looked like green rhubarb juice, and he had the expression of 'Damn!' all over him.
~ Elinor Glyn
You're something between a dream and a miracle.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A dark-haired young woman in bright sunflower barrettes brushed by Matthew; undressing him with a look that he profoundly ignored, though he wouldn't have if he'd felt the fey iciness that a very particular, very exhausting sort of spell cloaked from both him and Kit.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I imagined myself taller, imagined myself angry, and pulled the subtlest glamour I could around me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He wanted to close his eyes at the declaration, remembering the heat of a crimson iron close enough to curl his lashes. The hand that did not hold his cane tightened on a bit of silk in his socket, and something pricked him. The enchanted nail Kit had given him, and Will drew strength from it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Despite his worry, Will straightened his spine and breathed the cold scent of crunching leaves, drank deep of the welcome air of Faerie and let its strength fill him up.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Carel, there's a unicorn eating your lily buds.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Oh, don't think we're all seriousness and stealth, Merlin.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Tristen shook his head, his white hair shedding snowflakes as if it were made of snow itself.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Garrett didn't miss the jeweled-serpent glitter in the man's eyes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I am a sorcerer, lad, not a cannibal.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The baby in her arms was silent: ensorceled, and there would be a simulacram left in the crib, a changeling. A fey mockery to die by sunrise, and leave the grieving family to wonder. Crib death. Elf-stroke. How little we remember.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Seduced by Faerie already, Merlin the Magician?" "Not everyone who comes to a lover's bed is seduced.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Whenever he was around, she'd get this look on her face, this kind of radiance. She was a beer poured too fast, her golden liquid spilling over the edge.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures
~ Elizabeth Goudge