Quotes About Captivation

Fiquei a olhá-la, a princípio com esse olhar que não é mais que o porta-voz dos olhos, mas à janela do qual se inclinam todos os sentidos, ansiosos e petrificados, olhar que desejaria tocar, capturar, trazer consigo o corpo que está mirando, e com ele a alma.

I looked at her, at first with the sort of gaze that is not merely the messenger of the eyes, but a window at which all the senses lean out, anxious and petrified, a gaze that would like to touch the body it is looking at, capture it, take it away and the soul along with it;

I raised my eyes to those flavescent, frizzy locks and felt myself caught in their swirl and swept away, with a throbbing heart, amid the lightning and the blasts of a hurricane of beauty.

serás toda tu vida un mendigo que va por ahi en busca de esos párpados que sólo se abren para mirarte y se cierran para aprisionarte.

Oh, he's smitten all right, Marianne." "Is he, really?

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

I am going to pull the music from your mouth and furthermore I'll take the orange aching light that splits your ribs when I or any beautiful things come at you.

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.

I think people will read about anything if it's good or interesting or funny enough.

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.

Oh oh it's magic When I'm with you Oh oh it's magic You know it's true Got a hold on you

We are easily seduced. It's magic lures us, and we are it's willing victims.

Her dimples are a never-ending game, her smile is always changing, I could watch her forever.

Speaking in public is a constant process of working for the attention of your audience.

how to keep the audience engaged and entertained throughout the story. No matter how well you have prepared for it, you can still encounter problems. You

Woman, in the decadent world around us, captures a man by loving him, and, having got him, sometimes comes to admire him, which is all to the good; and, if Fate is not unkind, may descend no lower than liking and enduring.

They stood, caught in the eternity of a moment.

Her sweet bearing and fresh beauty Have wounded without sword or lance... —William Dunbar "Beauty and the Prisoner

Looking at him was like staring at a prism; you saw something different from every angle. The one definite was that you couldn't stop looking at him.

She read with "abandon," it would probably be called, though when you read a book you didn't abandon anything; instead, you marshaled it all.

It did something else that art is supposed to do. Absorb you.