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Quotes About Wonder

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean waves and French words and a baby's laugh. You're a snow angel, crème brulée, a kaleidoscope filled with glitter. I love you and you'll never catch up, because I've gotten a head start and my heart is racing at light speed.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.
~ Lisa Kleypas
When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, "Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.
~ Joel Edgerton
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
~ Alan Watts
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
~ Louis C. K.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
~ Maria Mitchell
For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
~ Sally Rooney
St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.
~ Eugene Kennedy
One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.
~ Lilla Crawford
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
~ Bradley Chicho
The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.
~ Erin Morgenstern
I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Apparently, when I was really little, I watched the film version of 'The Secret Garden' and thought it was, like, the best thing ever.
~ Morfydd Clark
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Science starts with a question.
~ Jeff Anderson
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.
~ Jeff Lindsay
If you believe that God makes miracles you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Coincidence is always possible. Strange and improbable things happen every day, and we accept them and simply scratch our heads like rubes in the big city, and say, "Gollee, ain't that somethin'.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Cody stood looking up at Brian, his feet spread apart and his hands hanging stiffly at his sides. Their eyes locked together and I could hear the leathery unfolding of wings between them, the dark and sibilant greeting of twin interior specters. There was a look of belligerent wonder on Cody's face, and he just stared for a long moment and Brian stared back, and finally Cody looked at me. "Like me," he said. "Shadow Guy.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I looked at Jackie with new respect. "Ingenious," I said, and she gave me a smile that made me want to sing.
~ Jeff Lindsay
On entering the little green-walled
~ Jeffrey Archer
Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides