Quotes About Wonder

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

It seemed very remarkable that you could travel halfway around the world and still end up looking at some ducks.

It was the golden time of year. Every day the leaves grew brighter, the air sharper, the grass more brilliant. The sunsets seemed to expand and melt and stretch for hours, and the brick façades glowed pink, and everything got bluer. How many perfect autumns did a person get?

How is it we don't create new words when we see something that astonishes us? Why don't we make up new words for the things that make us feel new?

this exquisite, tremendous, and endlessly confounding life

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oohing and aahing over the Old Whaling Church and

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You're something between a dream and a miracle.

You will wonder at me, but these public affairs have half killed me. You know I can't take things quietly. Your complaint and mine, Fanny, are just opposite. For weeks and weeks, in my feverish state, I never closed my eyes without suffering 'punishment' under eternal articles of peace and unending lists of provisional governments. Do you wonder?

The universe was very beautiful. I looked out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.

Perhaps what I was feeling was the thing called awe.

Carel, there's a unicorn eating your lily buds.

Boris, baby. How many lives are you on now?

Some things he had never managed to become jaded to, and the tenuous beauty of the world was one of those.

Leah and I connect, and we have since she was barely old enough to grab my finger and stare deeply into my eyes. There's something about her that reminds me of Nell, come to think of it. Wide-eyed wonder and a whim of carbon steel.

His voice held wonder and worry when he spoke at last.

She was old, and too worn thin to wonder. But oh, what a beautiful boy he was then.

Kit wondered if they were real fey animals, or if they would disappear into dried leaves and twists of straw with the down's advent.

No matter what kind of nonsense is going on around you, the first moment of stepping out of a vehicle into space is always awe-inspiring, the more so here in the Core than elsewhere.

Outside, the folded sky of white space-and my time as a free person (was I a free person?)-whisked silently by.

In reality, there's nothing quite like staring into the most enormous black hole in the galaxy, then flying down its gullet like a gnat with attitude.

My flight led me through twisting companion-ways and chambers vast and tiny and in between, whose purpose was indeterminate because I did not stop to investigate.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.