Wondered Quotes
730 Wondered quotes by 510 unique authors
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We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be…
— Henri Nouwen
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Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be…
— David Wojnarowicz
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When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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Simon!” The voice was Clary’s. He would know it anywhere. He wondered if his mind was conjuring it up now, a sense memory of what…
— Cassandra Clare
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The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
— Jodi Picoult
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I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” “Just thought you’d come nosing around, did you?” Harry…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
— Dan Brown
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The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
— Henning Mankell
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the…
— Neil Gaiman
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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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There will be three, kin of your kin..." Jayfeather's voice shook as he wondered if he could possibly be right. "Cloudtail is Firestar's kin, Whitewing…
— Erin Hunter
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He leaned against the door frame, ignoring the kick of adrenaline the sight of her produced. He wondered why, not for the first time. Isabelle…
— Cassandra Clare
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For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into…
— Cassandra Clare
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She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered…
— Cassandra Clare
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And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside…
— Peter Cameron
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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century,…
— Samuel Beckett
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If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon…
— Rick Riordan
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Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?
— Paul Stewart
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For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right…
— Garth Stein
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Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward…
— Dorianne Laux
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