Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

You can stand in the middle of a street and let the drops fall on you and feel refreshed. It’s like God’s little sprinkler.

I don’t think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don’t think he’s primarily marvelous; he’s complicated.

I think of this girl, this bright light coming from such a dark place. I know that the things she believes about God and the Bible and hope and all that are very real to...

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we’ll just...

In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is faced with disconcerting ontological and perceptual problems.Indeed, the disorienting effect of the supernatural...

There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she’s managed to walk away from.

Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls ‘the fantastic,’ between ‘the marvelous’ and ‘the uncanny.’ According to Todorov, ‘The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who...

You look marvelous!

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes...

Ophelia,’ said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn’t like the way he said that at all. He sounded sad and as though he expected more from her.’And how do you know my...

Don’t allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels of life.

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

Oh no, Raphael, please don’t leave me,” Magnus said in a monotone. “Where would I be without the light of your sweet smile? If you go, I will throw myself upon the ground and weep.”...

Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Suddenly, I can’t move. I can’t speak. I am set in stone, but it’s a glorious chiseled sort of stone.