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Quotes About Enchantment

It's always nice to remember that there was a time when I loved something that I didn't know much about; it just reached my ears and moved me.
~ Thomas Newman
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.
~ Sushant Singh Rajput
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
~ Terri Windling
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
~ Lev Grossman
As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.
~ Lily Collins
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
~ David Byrne
I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.
~ Lisa Joy
It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.
~ George Hamilton
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
~ Paulo Coelho
Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
Bewitched is half of everything.
~ Nelly Sachs
I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!
~ Natalya Neidhart
It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.
~ Garth Nix
Sixth comes Saraneth, also known as the Binder. Saraneth speaks with the deep voice of power, shackling the Dead to the wielder's will.
~ Garth Nix
Do you think I could still be a wizard? One day?' 'Perhaps,' said the Good Wizard. 'I was a princess myself once.
~ Garth Nix
too many fantasy novels
~ Garth Nix
Ever thought of becoming a wizard?' - The Good Wizard 'Not before now,' said Anya. 'I've always wanted to be a sorcerer...' Her voice trailed off as the Good Wizard raised her eyebrows. 'But not so much anymore,' continued Anya.
~ Garth Nix
Will you turn me back to myself, please, Frogkisser?
~ Garth Nix
Tell me, Little Bao, have you ever gotten close to woman?' 'Well. . . ' 'Close enough to smell her?' 'No.' 'Ah! Even when they stink they smell like heaven! Women are something else? They're. . . they're magic!
~ Gene Luen Yang
The pool and the miniature vale that contained it, always dark, grew darker still. Looking up after countless kisses, he saw idling fish of mottled gold and silver, black, white, and red, hanging in air above the goddess's upraised hand, and for the first time noticed light streaming from a lamp of silver filigree in the branches of a stunted tree. "Where did they go?" he asked.
~ Gene Wolfe
Mediante el empleo del lenguaje del dolor, por el momento lo había eliminado.... tan poderoso es el encantamiento de las palabras, que reduce a entidades manejables todas las pasiones que de otro modo nos enloquecerían y nos destruirían (La sombra del Torturador - Gene Wolfe)
~ Gene Wolfe
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.
~ George Carlin