Quotes About Enchantment

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

She bent down, looking at his hand from different angles, like a child expecting to find a hidden piece of candy. "What is it?" Her voice was like a whisper. "You can show me. I won't tell anyone. Is it a treasure? Have you cut off a piece of the night's cloak and tucked it away? Is it the heart of a beetle, so tiny yet powerful?

you will never find a murderess more intoxicating, more entrancing, than the sea.

Just as a beautiful woman demanded attention by virtue of her face and figure, Breeze drew it by near unconscious use of his powers.

I admitted, still drinking in his eyes, his amazing face. I never seemed to get enough of that.

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", Van Gogh's "Sunflowers", the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

our world has lost its sense of wonder.

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

De geweldige boomkronen, ver boven onze hoofden tot een altijd groen dak vervlochten, lieten maar betrekkelijk weinig daglicht door, zodat wij ons voortbewogen als in de schemering van een aquarium.

Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.

Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.

I was dazzled by their loveliness.

An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. ~ Henry Louis Mencken

You see, people read to be amused, to pass the time, I never read to be instructed; I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic. I'm always looking for the author who can take me out of myself.

A veces la atmósfera es tan eléctrica, que el alma se siente llamada a salir de su cuerpo y enloquece.

It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I swayed in what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood loosing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power that first moved it is withdrawn.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

The moors have this weird energy. They trap you.

I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious attraction for me for during the time I was there.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this?