Quotes About Marveled

Helene had an upstairs bedroom all to herself. I'm the favorite, she told Shelby, who marveled at her confidence, even back then. Shelby was an only child and she didn't feel like the favorite, not until her mother was dying. I never want to stop watching over you, Shelby's mother had told her, and then she wondered why it had taken her so long to know she was loved.

I marveled at his customary manner of speaking, the melting quality of his voice and the way his words seemed barely to disturb the air.

She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it.

I remember the bed and the crisp, yellowing sheets. I wondered how many people had slept in it. I marveled at how the pillow, like a small theater, had staged countless dreams.

She marveled at the selections Moira and Gretchen had made. As if they were both professional wardrobe planners. Or perhaps just angels in disguise.

They build their monuments as if their intent was never to finish them," the Spanish academic Polo de Ondegardo marveled in 1571.

obvious solution, and marveled that no one had

She thought of herself wondering how he was going to breathe in the coffin and marveled at the stubbornness of mental habits.

A mist still lay all about the walls and floors, hovering like a last breath on the lips of all the sleepers. As he walked through the castle, he marveled at how many lay asleep: the good people, the not-so-good, the young people and the not-so-young, and not one of them stirring. Not one.

Sí?"she said shyly, and I marveled once again at the power of my totally smarmy synthetic charm. And in two languages, too.

I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the Stalins to have their way. But nothing - nothing - compares to the self-restraint shown that dark Friday in Jerusalem.

There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastating powers of deduction, I wished there had been two of me so I could have patted myself in the back.