#enchanted

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#chambers #colour #enchanted #every #face

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#disenchanted #enchantments #gives #love #miracles

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#anything #assuming #become #believing #disenchanted

No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold. ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#enchanted #love #truth #wednesday #love

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#enchantment #magic #magical #perspective #scale

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attitude #become #can-do #disenchanted #example

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#becomes #children #day #enchanted #grandchildren

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to? ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#enchanted #love #marriage #sunday-woodcutter #love

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#detailed #enchanted #escape #i #into

When sad she brings the thunder And her tears, they bring the rain When ill she feeds a poison To us all to fell her pain Her smiles they bring the sunshine And the laughter and the wind And the birds they go on singing And the world is whole again. "Smile, sweet Sunday," Wednesday whispered in her ear. "The birds need your love so they can lift their wings. ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#birds #enchanted #sunday #wedneday #love