#spells

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? ↗

— Deb Caletti

#charming #dictionary #liars #magic #magicians

Is my world turning into Harry Potter's?! ↗

— Jada Berglund

#curious #harry-potter #hazel #magic #spells

Her hand wandered under his shirt, feeling his rapid breath expand his ribs. She hesitated for a second—wondering what the chances were that either of her parents would come home early—then lifted his shirt with both hands, guiding it up his arms and over his head. It was her favourite indulgence; holding herself against his bare chest. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#kissing #love #spells #wings-series #love

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#enchantment #shakespeare #spells #art

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#dry #even #going #greatest #had

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#dragons #dungeons #fire #game #gold

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#anything #assume #balance #busy #dry

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#america #because #best #faults #happiness

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

#any #central #death #establish #feelings

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious. ↗

— Bill Maher

#because #his #jim #jim bakker #name