Quotes About Wonder

All books have magical properties.

Here come the colours of Madeleine, thought Jack, and the colours went right through his bloodstream now, sailing on tiny boats — spinnakers fixed with little toothpicks.

I saw your name in lights last night. It's the middle of the night, and I can't sleep, thinking all my trumpeting thoughts, and I get out of bed, open the curtains, and look into the night full of stars, and you know what I saw? Your name. Like the stars joined up and spelled the word for me. Like a sign.

What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?

Children think around corners.

was low in the sky, and the woods seemed to be sprouting strange

Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment.

I watched my brother watch the world, his sharp, too-serious brow furrowing down in both angst and wonder. Everywhere we looked, we saw the people trying to dream themselves out. As though there was someplace other than this place. As though there was another Brooklyn.

But once, a cardinal alighted on the kitchen windowsill and he found himself squinting long after it had flown away again, trying hard to hold on to its beauty.

Imagine, my brother signed. Imagine if somebody built a bridge right outside our window and we could just walk across the highway and be on the other side.

How amazing these words are that slowly come to me. How wonderfully on and on they go. Will the words end, I ask whenever I remember to. Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now, and promising me infinity.

Omul a fost z?mislit din lut ?i ap?. De ce o femeie n-ar fi n?scut? din rou?, aburi p?mânte?ti ?i raze de lumin?, din r?m??i?ele unui curcubeu f?râmat? Ce este cu putin???... ?i ce e cu neputin???...

When she returned to her cabin, Dr.Gabriel was already there examining Sterling's back. Sterling lay on his stomach, on her bunk, his eyes closed. She wondered if he was sleeping. She doubted it. He was probably unconscious. Or perhaps he'd closed his eyes in order to hide what he was feeling.

He thinks I'm an angel. What would an angel say?

Jahnna N. Malcolm

Por qué eres tan hermosa? ¿Te acunaron en versos? ¿Leche de flor bebiste? ¿Quién te modeló sobre mi corazón, quién te tatuó sobre mis ojos?

Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.

When I looked at them, they made up a sea.

And my difficulties were these: I found each plant, each new turn in the road, each new turn in the weather, from cold to hot and then back again, each new set of boulders so absorbing, so new, and the newness so absorbing, and I was so in need of an explanation for each thing, that I was often in tears, troubling myself with questions, such as what am I and what is the thing in front of me.

We are not alone. In this vast Universe. The universe is too huge. Not to have other living beings, besides us. One day in the never future. We will get the surprise. We have been waiting for. And it will be mind bugling. Beyond our wildest dream. We are definitely not alone. It is too good to be true. The others we seek were here before us. And they will greet us again. In good time. You can believe it or not. It will happen."

Little known fact: sometimes wizards do things just because it amuses them.

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?

It is only when we see just how wonderful and amazing man is that we can appreciate the magnitude of the Fall and the greatness of redemption.

che c'entra questo con le stelle? What has this to do with the stars?