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Quotes About Wonder

I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.
~ Julian Barratt
When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!
~ Marley Dias
I believe Ryan Reynolds is magic. He's a magical human being.
~ Ryan Fleck
I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
~ Christopher Lee
Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.
~ Kay Cannon
Emma drew in the dirt with a stick, making curlicues and unconsciously tracing Connor's initials. GC. GC. She frowned. She wondered if he had a middle name. She'd never asked. "Emma!
~ Diana Palmer
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot. Teach me to hear the mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Decide what this is about Write a second verse yourself
~ Diana Wynne Jones
But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. It was hardly more than an alley, really. It'll never fit! people said. But the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. The citizens of High Norland gave it a cheer as it went.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody's safe in a wizard's house.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Why am I holding a dog full of angels?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
One of the stars came unstuck from the firmament and darted in a white streak down the sky...Michael was stalking the star with soft steps, both arms out to catch it.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
What made me think I wanted life to be interesting?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
But what call has he to be walking around in a charmed suit?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
seen without clothes on. Their skins were greenish
~ Diana Wynne Jones
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
~ Diane Ackerman
It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.
~ Diane Ackerman
There is a way of beholding nature that is itself a form of prayer.
~ Diane Ackerman
One of the most remarkable things about Antonina was her determination to include play, animals, wonder, curiosity, marvel, and a wide blaze of innocence in a household where all dodged the ambient dangers, horrors, and uncertainties. That takes a special stripe of bravery rarely valued in wartime. While
~ Diane Ackerman
I have one talent, he wrote, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas.
~ Diane Ackerman