Quotes About Captivation

She surrendered herself utterly to the charm of the moment.

The girl's beauty and sorrow and loneliness drew her with an irresistible fascination.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

I miss the way you got me high by that deadly hypnotizing smile.

When Senta started singing it was spellbinding—Daphne said this word to herself with a further shiver of pleasure.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.

He smiled at me, and that smile -- he just gets in. His smile did it every time.

I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep. Peter

There's just something about him girls like.

Conrad had a way of looking at me, at you, at anybody, that made everything unravel and want to fall at his feet.

I do know I can't get his Handsome Boy face out of my mind. The way he smirks when he says my name, how when he's near me I forget to breathe sometimes.

There is no such thing as an attention span. People have infinite attention if you are entertaining them.

At all times all parts of the world are eternally fascinating.

It had swept him, he said, "into a dream from which I did not recover for months.

You have eyes that hold me so tightly I could fight for the rest of my life and I'll never escape.

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

Es gibt nun mal solche Bücher, die schon auf wenigen Seiten, in wenigen Sätzen eine so starke Welt evozieren, dass uns die "Fortsetzung" nicht mehr interessiert, die weitere Lektüre überflüssig oder gar unmöglich erscheint. Man hat einfach nicht mehr die Kraft dazu. Natürlich kommen wir irgendwann darauf zurück, um die nächste Dosis Rauschgift – oder Gift – zu konsumieren.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs on stage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

I am fascinated by storytelling glue. Anytime I see someone who's good at it, I stop and wonder, 'How'd they 'do this? Why can't I tear myself away?