Quotes About Wonder

I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.

They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear. Some people say that a sunrise is a miracle, because it is somewhat mysterious and often very beautiful, but other people say it is simply a fact of life, because it happens every day and far too early in the morning.

it is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think

But by immersing themselves in their favorite reading topics, they felt far away from their predicament, as if they had escaped.

Questions show an inquisitive mind.

Don't explain,' I said. 'Leave me something to be mystified about.

I love you, Kayla Martin. I want to spend the rest of my life wondering what will happen when I turn on the microwave. I want to explain the X-files to you in bed every night and replace cabinet doors that are dented from your feet.....I want to go to sleep at night knowing that you're puttering around in the other room inventing something that will baffle and confuse me.

When you're eight years old, nothing is your business.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves, I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself.

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

Embrace the impossible! Find the magic within! BE MORE FICTIONAL.

A what, now?

You can't know how amazing this is, how it makes up for everything. I knew that there was something like this out there, because if there wasn't, then life is just dental floss and vegetables and word problems. That can't be everything.

He knew all the constellations. He had seen them rise in darkness over heartbreaking coasts.

To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer, to see and be amazed.

You have made the moon, The Jester said. That is the moon.

the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your guess is quite as good as mine (there are a lot of things that shine) but I have always thought she did, and I will always think so.

Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.

Admiration.

Once people needed heaven and hell, Elysium and Faerie. They believed. Belief is the great creative force, the faith that moves mountains. If Someone had not believed in us, so they say, we would never have been born. I have spent my darkest hours wondering what kind of a Creator would have believed in me. Kal

And magic exists to break the rules.