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Quotes About Enchantment

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
~ Riccardo Muti
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.
~ Peter Abrahams
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
~ Kate DiCamillo
When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.
~ Pamela Ribon
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.
~ Cameron Dokey
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
~ John Burroughs
Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.
~ Stephen King
This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
~ Terry Pratchett
Uh, Lunitaris idish, shirak, damen du!
~ Margaret Weis
That's it!" cried Fizban. "I remembered!" Suddenly the air was filled with strands of sticky, floating cobweb.
~ Margaret Weis
Je pense souvent à cette image que je suis seule à voir encore et dont je n'ai jamais parlé. Elle est toujours là dans le même silence,émerveillante. C'est entre toutes celle qui me plaît de moi-même, celle où je me reconnais, où je m'enchante.
~ Marguerite Duras
We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.
~ Marianne Williamson
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.
~ Marina Warner
But it could also be an enslavement, a hell , to keep searching for the enchanted , keep plunging down, down to the lonely chambers of the sea. To seek mermaids . It was a tragic thing to do, like looking for Eden.
~ Marisha Pessl
He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.
~ Mark Helprin
Nature is a beautiful gift of magic.
~ Mark Townsend
Who can really describe why they fell in love?
~ Anthony Bourdain
She had no startling brilliancy of beauty, no pearly whiteness, no radiant carnation. She had not the majestic contour that rivets attention, demands instant wonder, and then disappoints by the coldness of its charms. You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.
~ Anthony Trollope
They had dismounted, laughing, amorous, and Katherine on finding a fairy ring of mushrooms in the grove had cried that by means of this enchantment on Midsummer Eve she would bind her love to her for ever, so that he might never once leave her side.
~ Anya Seton
you should be proud of your enchantments!
~ Anya Seton
En ocasiones, en la vieja casa encantada del cerebro, oigo a lo lejos, alguna puerta olvidada. La música de una lejana fiesta espectral, y la agitación de los ecos bajo el chirriante suelo.
~ Archibald MacLeish
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~ Aristotle