Quotes About Wonder

Zack walked across the room to the window, leaned out and peered into the night.

It was beautiful, and it was terrible, and it was almost indescribably eerie.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

Rarely do we realize that if we simply take time to marvel at life's gifts and give thanks for them, we activate stunning opportunities to increase their influence in our lives.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Cerys watched her open the door and struggle to squeeze inside. "Zelda?" Cerys called. "Yes?" puffed Aunt Zelda, poking her head out of the cupboard with some difficulty. "It is possible to eat an Enlarging Spell without realising it, do you suppose?" Aunt Zelda looked puzzled. "I shouldn't think so," she said. "Why?" "No reason. I just wondered.

Comptroller," Sally began hurriedly in an oddly strangled voice. "I bring you this Wonder for the Coronation. We, the family Mullin, are honored to be the Keepers of the Coronations Biscuit Tin and as is our bounded duty since Time Began, we now resent this to thee, Oh, Comptroller, for its sacred duty. Safe Journey." - To Sarah

Goeie genade!' riep tante Zelda, 'wat heb je daar nou?' 'Haal dat ding van me af!' schreeuwde Septimus... Jenna zat doodstil en staarde verbijsterd naar een net uitgekomen draakje.

Springtimes have needed you. And there are stars expecting you to notice them.

At first she mistook them for sheets of pink crepe paper that someone had crumpled and carelessly flung down the hillside, perhaps after another astonishing party at the club. A moment later she remembered her great-grandmother's words and saw that they were hosts of wild pink zephyranthes that had come up in the night after the first fall of rain.

There are more experiences in life than you'd think for which there are no words.

We think that we know what life has to offer, but life never fails to surprise us.

If you look at the photograph...and read: `Skunk Cabbage - a plant with thick roots, wide leaves, and disagreeable smell,` you will not want to look at the cabbage itself. But if you get down on your knees and study it (holding your breath), you will find a pattern of delicate lines, curling shapes, velvety shadows, and fresh beauty.

He thought this must be what the moon must look like, if you

I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.