Quotes of: Wonderful-childhood Keyword

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

Emily's Quest

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Essays, First Series

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

The Eternal Wonder

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

The End of Mr. Y

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

El doctor Zhivago

Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.

Forever Boy

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

Fight Club

He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.

Flip

Sometimes you wonder why you’re out here. And the stupid thing about it, is you haven’t got an answer." - excerpt from: freefalling

freefalling

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

Fragments

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

A Familiar Rain

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

Handle with Care

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it—he wonders what that means.

Are We There Yet?

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

And talk about that fabulous chest. Mmm he must work out because that chest does wonders".

Broken Halo

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

The Bell Jar