Quotes About Wonder

So, wondering whether any lovers before them had made this blissful discovery, they lay together as the earth turned slowly and the moon and stars blazed above them.

The wonder was in her, and the skepticism was in the world, and the coolness was in both.

And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

There were mysteries enough without imagining more.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. - Carnegie Medal Acceptance Speech

As they climbed, she could see the glitter of the moon on the sea far off to the left, and its silver-sepia light seemed to envelop her in a cool, skeptical wonder. The wonder was in her, and the skepticism was in the world, and the coolness was in both.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

Lyra marvelled at the effect hope could have.

Dust is beautiful...I never knew.

Trust chance, trust silence, trust mystery

Look at that light up there: that's the sun of another world! Feel the warmth of it on your skin, now!

Themes that are too large for adult fiction can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book - Philip Pullman (Hunt and Lenz, 2001, p. 122 as cited by Hunt, 2005, p. 204)

We live our lives between magic and panic.

It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, Momma, do we believe in winter?

I caught a pebble in the moonlight.

The tree bark began to move, forming a face of wood.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

Beautiful is mysterious. It tells us that there's so much more than what we're seeing or learning. And that's why we're drawn to it. Because we want to know the part we're not seeing or hearing.

Show them the mysteries of Hella, that's the real beauty of this world.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

The whole world will marvel at how God brings down a powerful enemy while preserving His people.

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

They defy gravity, as good books should.