Quote by Bram Stoker

“The snake had charmed me”

— Joseph Conrad

“It was baffling. These creatures. The were fraught and frayed win their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.”

— Walter Isaacson

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of…

— Plutarch

“And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which, hatched, would as its kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell”

— William Shakespeare

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. They were white cobras tangled among themselves, like the hair of Medusa. They were…

— Richard Preston

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“A portal into the mind of a creature so unlike me, and yet … and yet I looked at its work and understood, and…

— Sarah J. Maas

“So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that…

— Hermann Bahr

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“He recognized her immediately when he saw her again. And what he recognized was her energy, which seemed to precede her. As if her…

— Alice Walker