Enchanting Quotes

“Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake.
‘Yes, the very battle between good and evil, played out even in the lowliest of lives like yours. Witches killing dogs because they did not get their favourite drink.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Soon she is lost in another dimension where images prevail and silence rules. A large, black eye flutters open, staring at Kate from deep within the oceanic darkness of its mysterious pupil. Falling into the center of this cyclopean abyss, she comes face to face with something completely unexpected. A tiny infant, seemingly asleep, is suspended in a cocoon of rotating beads of white light above a luminous white stone altar.”
― Kathy Martone, Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery

“It is often said that what sets Shakespeare apart is his ability to illuminate the workings of the soul and so on, and he does that superbly, goodness knows, but what really characterizes his work - every bit of it, in poems and plays and even dedications, throughout every portion of his career - is a positive and palpable appreciation of the transfixing power of language.A Midsummer Night's Dreamremains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few could argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression.”
― Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage

“Sensuality, essentially, means falling in love with details that make you feel luscious.”
― Lebo Grand

“Tyler knelt and rummaged through the empty waste basket. He frowned. No glasses and no gum. “Wait a minute…” He walked up to the hanging toile and stared at it. What’s going on this looks like Aunt Meg’s wallpaper… Tyler stepped closer. He rubbed his hand over the paper and nothing happened. As he tried to pull the paper from the wall, two smaller greenish hands grabbed Tyler’s leg and pulled.”
― Mary K. Savarese, The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper

“What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.”
― Laurie Brown, What Would Jane Austen Do?

“Every man inherently wants to idolize his woman. It irks us whenever we find you regular rather than enchanting.”
― Lebo Grand

“Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things with care and imagination. -Thomas Moore”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“A sensual lifestyle is all about making a shift from the old way of thinking and stepping into a new one that allows you to be more enchanting.”
― Lebo Grand

“She douses the flames of desire in my eyes,
and asks why I leave the soiree so thirsty.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Of all the things I have been, sensual is by far the most powerful.”
― Lebo Grand

“Sensual eyes give us the ability to see what is not there in what is there.”
― Lebo Grand

“Who will you nurture and who will you doom?
Because in those enchanting twilights,
I will be the wolf, and I will be the moon.”
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God’s principles”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We each took a cup as we passed and drank the sweet chilled beverage- it was refreshing and tasted like ginger ale with a swirl of summer peaches. Then Peaseblossom waved us through the open door.
"Wow," said Henry.
We stepped into an enchanted culinary forest. The walls had been painted to look like a thicket of trees, and the ceiling resembled the summer sky in the woods, complete with overhanging branches. There were topiaries and baskets overflowing with wildflowers. The tables were grouped to one side, still draped in their shimmering coverings. Dreamy music floated through the air, and piney, herby scents wafted on gentle currents. Butterflies flitted around and landed on people's heads and shoulders. And everywhere we looked, there were trays of baked goods- most of them, I realized, straight from the pages of Puffy Fay's cookbook. The pastry case and the counter near it were hidden behind curtains that looked like a wall of evergreens.”
― Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

“Sensuality has got juicy, enchanting, and ecstatic lifestyle plans for you.”
― Lebo Grand

“His cuffs are jewelled, and the moth pin that holds his cloak in place has wings that move on their own.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“The polished wood door is still carved with an enormous and sinister face, still flanked with lanterns, but sprites no longer fly in desperate circles within. A soft glow of magic emanates instead.

'My king,' the door says fondly, it's eyes opening.

Cardan smiles in return. 'My door,' he says with a slight hitch in his voice, as though perhaps everything about returning here feel strange.

'Hail and welcome,' it says, and swings wide.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I describe The Ozarks as somewhere in the middle of enchanting and charming. I don't know where exactly, so let's call it encharming.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“I will use my special sight! I will quiet myself right here and now and I will get the answer on what to do to and create my own way out of here!”
Arthur, See the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure”
― Chris DiSano Davenport, See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure

“Without sensuality you will not be an interesting lover.”
― Lebo Grand

“Beyond this i-don’t-care-and-give-a-damn attitude is an enchanting human being. You are scared of this man. He is invading your senses, and you do not like it…You do not want hassle, and he is hassle and danger!”
― Pragya Tiwari, Outlet from Loneliness

“People who resist their sensuality resist a better version of themselves and, essentially, their own evolution towards living a more enchanting life.”
― Lebo Grand

“Gliding through the garden was a peacock. It might have even been thee same one I'd seen before, with a tall crown and gorgeous deep-blue chest. Arrogantly, he turned his face away from us, as if we were below his notice, and called out to the forest. From the trees came an answer, and he strutted off, king of his domain." They are so beautiful. "Pavi sighed.
"Samir told me there is a flock that lives in the forest."
"Roses and peacocks. It's like the setting for a fairy tale."
I looked around. "It's going to take more than a kiss to save this place." I thought of the single rose blooming into the parlor when Samir and I had first walked through. "But it does feel sometimes like it's under an enchantment."
One tall rose drew my eye, a castle atop a small hill, with tangles of white damask roses around it, as if on guard. The rose was orange and yellow with touches of pink, and I recognized it immediately from a hundred of my mother's paintings. It seemed larger than others of the same type, as haughty as the peacock, and I rounded the overgrown white roses to see if I could find a way in.
Pavi, however, was enchanted by the damasks. "These are prime," she cried, burying her nose in a mass of them. "The perfect flower for rosewater. It will be clear and very, very fragrant.”
― Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

“Glowing.

The moon through a doorway.
Breath hard in my throat.

Heart full to burst.
The moon through a doorway.

And its light…

Hope.”
― Edith Pattou, East

“I still can't believe how much I can see of the woods. Each branch and leaf is lit up as if it's beneath a spotlight. This place feels like a fantasy, like any minute now we'll cross paths with a group of fairies, and Emma will simply wave hello at them, used to the sight.”
― Adi Alsaid, North of Happy

“The story must strike a nerve—in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“... I sit on the rug before the unlit grate and crack open the walnut. Out spills pale apricot muslin, frothing quantities of it. I shake the dress. It has an empire waist and wide, gathered sleeves that start just above the elbow so that my shoulders are bare. It hangs down to the floor in more gathered pleats.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of the response it drew from her well-loved eyes.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald