Quotes About Enchantment

el encantamiento de enamorarse, lo mejor que existe en el mundo.

Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

la educación es una tarea tan decisiva. Educar es convertir a alguien en persona; es acompañar con criterio; es predicar con el ejemplo. Educar es seducir por encantamiento y ejemplaridad con la alegría como telón de fondo[14].

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

At times we pick from our "extensive time experience" some enchanting moments that are cuddling in our mind. They are stolen moments from our durational perception and we are keen on holding them preciously in our memory's Garden of Eden. ("Stolen moments" )

Cherishing the sweet reminiscence of the early hours of life can be experienced as real enchantment: Those hours when fantasy is given wings and imagination allows us to sail with our paper boats through the stern roads of our constricted life. ( "Paper boats forever" )

Perhaps life is an art, an enchantment, a fairy tale, an adventurous story trimmed with alluring episodes, an act with players who seem to be what they are actually not. We cannot, however, expect people to accept the make belief which some actors try to fool into believing. ( " He did not know that she knew " )

The way you look tonight. In that dress. Jesus, Brooke, you're beautiful.

You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

This is your brain on magic.

Carnivorous unicorns, I thought.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts 'A Shadow Passes' (1919)

Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,

There are many reasons why babies cry when they are born, and one of them is the sudden separation from the world of pure dreams, where all things are made of enchantment, and where there is no suffering.

When we yearn, our yearning comes through from deep below. It comes from a deep remembering, from the forgotten dreams of our mingled ancestry. You are my yearning. And this is the night, long ago, when our stars first met. They are together now, in the heavens, shedding a beautiful radiance on this night. They are weaving enchantments for us so that we may step through the invisible mirror in the air and enter the fairy-tale we are meant to live, but which we forgot.

El amor sustituye la falta de recuerdos de un modo casi mágico. Todos los demás afectos necesitan el pasado: el amor crea un pasado como por encantamiento y nos rodea de él. Nos da, por así decirlo, la conciencia de haber vivido durante años con un ser que no hace mucho nos resultaba casi extraño. El amor es sólo un punto luminoso, y sin embargo parece apoderarse del tiempo.

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

I've always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't.

She had an unnecessarily loud voice, a bit of a bray, like some enchanted, hot donkey.