Wunder Quotes

The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

Being kind is one of the hardest thing to be in high school because you're so terrified of being cut down yourself that you're always on your guard. But don't be like that. Be kind and you will be truly different. A standout. Unique and happy.

The present moment can be chopped into infinitely smaller present moments. This moment is forever. And it is all that matters.

We weren't put on this earth to go it alone.

Kind of like people. We're too lazy to change, so we'll just keep doing what we're doing until it's too late.

You can't force your will with the universe. You just have to trust how things unfold.

She’d trained herself for so long not to want or to hope or to wish, that she had a hard time pinning down something to ask for.

If Cam finally learned one lesson before she died, it would be that being kind was sometimes more important than being right.

Es gibt zwei Arten sein Leben zu leben: entweder so, als wäre nichts ein Wunder, oder so, als wäre alles eines. Ich glaube an Letzteres.

Some people say you should pay attention to coincidence. It can show you your path. Besides, these coincidences are enough to keep people believing. To give them some hope.

If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter (E=mc2) and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe. Love, Cam had to admit, might be real. And love endures. Relationships endure. Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears.

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.

I think some girls get so caught up in the wedding part that they forget about the marriage part, and they end up bonded for life to the wrong person. It's not the wedding part that matters.

You need to be flagrantly insouciant. You care way too much. And because of that you will be paralyzed for life and miss out on everything.

Zwischen Freunden [können] Gespräche über das Wetter Wunder wirken.

I think there could be different versions of truth, he says. You choose your truth, and then you build your life around it.

People keep talking about this unfolding. I can't trust the unfolding, okay? If there is some higher power making origami out of the universe, it hates my guts. I was a fat kid whose parents got divorced, whose father died, and then who got cancer herself. So no. I don't trust how things are going to unfold.

Focus on the now and kick ass!

. . . Mind if I take the flamingo?" "It's $2.89." "Whoa, Darren, you drive a hard bargain. How about I'm just going to take it?

Infinity fascinated her. How systems and universes could keep getting infinitely smaller in one direction and infinitely larger in another. How the shape of an atom so precisely mimicked the shape of the solar system. How there wasn't an end to anything.

Only the present moment matters.

Having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die

We just wanted to see how you were doing,' Asher said. 'Well, that *is* a miracle,' said Perry. She took out her notebook and said out loud as she wrote, "Number forty: Campbell...has...friends.

She really needs to believe she's special. I admire that about her. Because you have to believe you're special before you can do anything special

I’m feeling particularly good and wicked at the moment.

*Go cow-tipping.* Close enough to donkey-napping.

Vater unser, mach mir noch mit einem Wunder eine feine Bildung - das Übrige kann ich ja selbst machen mit Schminke.

Aber manchmal geschehen Wunder.

Cam stepped inside the music and let it close around her like a bubble.

Love'--romantic love, anyway--was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.

Or just don't wear it. Then you can check off the skinny-dipping and kill two birds.' 'I'm not surfing naked, Asher.' 'Rats,' he said.

He takes my mouth with such fervor, my heart pounds harder than after I’ve just run for miles. My legs now feel like over cooked noodles.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

And I learn that facing your greatest fear is liberating. You no longer have to worry about it, because it has already happened. And you have survived.

Die Liebe ist ein Wunder, das immer wieder möglich, das Böse eine Tatsache, die immer vorhanden ist.

Jedes Baby war bei der Geburt ein perfektes Wunder, und das Leben im Grunde nur ein fortlaufender Zerstoerungsprozess.

Einerseits geben Wörter Sinn, andererseits sind sie tauglich, Unsinn zu stiften. Wörter können heilsam oder verletzend sein. Das Wort als Waffe. Sich spreizende, auftrumpfende, mit Bedeutung gemästete Wörter. Manche sind Zungenbrecher, andere lassen erkennen, verschleiern, leugnen ab, decken zu oder auf. Oft liegen winzige Wahrheiten unter Wortlawinen begraben. Aus Wortstreit entspringen Schimpfwörter. Flüche, Beschwörungen, Zaubersprüche bannen, rufen herbei, lassen wahre Wunder geschehen.

Wissen kann man mitteilen, Weisheit aber nicht. Man kann sie finden, man kann sie leben, man kann von ihr getragen werden, man kann mit ihr Wunder tun, aber sagen und lehren kann man sie nicht.

Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears...

Asher, help!' she cried as she climbed down the steep, twisting path to the beach. 'Help. Don't help. You give me mixed messages.' Asher sighed as he stuck his keys into his pocket and followed Cam to the edge of the lawn.

And I learn that facing your greatest fear is liberating. You no longer have to worry about it, because it has already happened. And you have survived. I want to face some more fears, it feels so freaking liberating. I want to just jump off the freaking Brooklyn Bridge.

You steal my donkey and then to apologize you bring me a flamingo?' 'He's irresistible, though,' Asher said, lifting Buddy onto his lap and pretending to squeeze his cheeks. 'Look at that face.' 'He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen.' 'I know,' Asher said, 'but he's one of God's creatures.

I have left behind what tethered me to the lake. The sadness. The self-pity. The dark tentacles of the murky sea monster only I could see. And I have come to appreciate the ocean. How the sun and salt together can leave things weightless, easy, and smooth around the edges. Like sea glass and driftwood.

Get used to that, Nana. He has a way of appearing out of thin air.' 'Oh my. Asher. Hm. Hm. Hm. Turn around. He's beautiful, Campbell. Are you schtupping my granddaughter?' she asked him. 'No, ma'am.' 'Well, I give you my permission.' And just liked that, Cam's love life was ruined forever. If and when she ever 'schtupped' Asher, she'd have to do everything she could not to think of her grandmotehr.

A'ohe I pau ka 'ike I ka halau ho'okahi, she said. It was a popular hula adage that meant:All knowledge is not contained in only one school.

If you put a frog in some warm water and slowly turn up the heat, he'll stay there until he boils. Kind of like people. We're too lazy to change so we'll just keep doing what we're doing until it's too late.

There is such a thing as a shy extrovert. People think extroverts are all loud and mouthy, like Rebecca Forman, but that's not true. The definitions of extrovert and introvert have do with how you process the world and from where you draw your energy. I'm shy, but I process my world by talking about it. Which makes me an extrovert. But I don't talk about it with just anyone. I have to talk about it with Zoe.

There is no stronger bond than the one that gets you through childhood.

I’ve never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.

I called your bluff,' he said. 'I see that,' she answered. 'I'll be down in five minutes.' 'Right on.

Nicht müde werden, sondern dem Wunder, leise, wie ein Vogel, die Hand hinhalten.

Old people always exaggerate the danger and lawlessness of their youth, thought Cam, because their adult lives have become so boring.

Thank God no one was bouncing.' 'You can say that again, Ass Whisperer.' 'Thank God no one was bouncing,' Cam said, and she started to drift off to sleep.

Ah. Alicia, see? Didn't I tell you that's what she needed to begin with? Maybe a little schtupping and it would make the cancer go away. It works with pimples.' 'Nana!

How can anyone grow up with parents and still believe that love conquers all? What teenager on the planet has parents who are still in love?

Wie es scheint, schmilzt die Frühlingssonne den harten Eispanzer des Barbarenhäuptlings, und, o Wunder, darunter kommt ein Philisoph zum Vorschein." "Ich weiß nicht was Vielosoof für eine Beleidigung ist, aber du kannst dir sicher sein, dass der Barbarenhäuptling dir gleich die Axt in den Rachen schiebt!" Ollowain schlang die Arme übereinander und tat, als zittere er. "So plötzlich kehrt der Winter zurück und lässt die schönsten Frühlingsblüten erfrieren." "Hast du mich gerade etwa mit Blüten verglichen?", grollte Mandred. "Nur eine Allegorie, mein Freund." Der Menschensohn runzelte die Stirn. Dann nickte er. "Ich nehme deine Entschuldigung an, Ollowain." Nuramon musste sich auf die Unterlippe beißen, um nicht laut loszulachen.

You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper." Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other hand to the rail of the bed and took a deep breath before she continued. "I will never be the same when you are gone. Things for me will be dim and gray and flat. But there is one thing that will keep me going, Campbell, and that is the belief in my connection to you. This thing. This crazy enmeshed love feeling that I have is real. Like this cup is real. Or this phone is real. And it will not just go away when you do. Okay? Wherever you are going, you will be connected to me by this thing, and you will never, ever be alone, okay? I want you to know that.

You are the only girl worth pursuing. And that's why no one pursues you." -Danny

Just go with it. You are a princess.' 'What does that *mean*, though?' Cam asked. 'How-' 'Oh, my God, Campbell. Be quiet!' He laughed.

Is he drunk?' the attendant asked as they boarded the early morning flight. 'Not yet,' said Grey.

Perry was in charge of music; Asher, lighting, seating, and structures; and presiding the service was Elaine, who was, not suprisingly, a certified minister and wedding planner.

I want to grow roots and vines from my body and ensnare him forever in my branches. No wonder we scare men away.

None of them are wholesome. There are straight men, and there are gay men, but there are no wholesome men.

Manche kommen wie durch ein Wunder davon, nur ein wenig betäubt. Andere sind zum endgültigen Sturz verurteilt, weil sie auf Menschenhöhe fliegen wollten.

Lesen ist ein großes Wunder.

I am a freshwater girl. I live on the lake, and in New Jersey, that's rare. The girls on the other side of town have swimming pools, and the girls in the south have the seashore. Other girls are dry, breezy, salty, and bleached. I, on the other hand, am dark, grounded, heavy, and wet. Fed by springs, tangled in soft fernlike seaweed, I am closer to the earth. Saturated to the bone. I know it, and so do the freshwater boys, who prefer the taste of salt.

This is the part of the horror film where you yell at the girl on the screen,'Don't *go*. You idiot! Don't go! Why are they always so stupid?' Cam *told* her mom he could be a serial killer.

Behaupte bloß nicht, die Natur sei kein Wunder. Erzähl mir bloß nicht, die Welt sei kein Märchen. Wer das nicht eingesehen hat, wird es vielleicht erst begreifen, wenn das Märchen sich bereits seinem Ende nähert. Denn dann bekommen wir eine letzte Möglichkeit, uns die Scheuklappen abzureißen, eine letzte Möglichkeit, uns diesem Wunder hinzugeben, von dem wir nun Abschied nehmen und das wir verlassen müssen.

Ich erzähle C. davon, weil wir das Abkommen haben, alles zu erzählen, und dass ich mich, wenn ich wie durch ein Wunder geheilt würde, dennoch erschießen würde. Ich kann nicht zurück. Ich stehe schon zu lange hier.

Beauty didn't seem to be a priority for people anymore. If you had to judge by I-95, America had become a cancerous clusters of cheap houses, replicating out of control...People just needed places to collect their stuff.

If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter (E=mc2) and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them.

When's the party?' Cam asked toying with her. 'Tonight.' 'Nope, sorry. I have an appointment tonight with Katie Holmes and her Disturbing Behavior.

Cam!' screamed Asher. 'Campbell look down.' 'Aren't you supposed to tell me not to look down?

No se puede ser libre si se dedica uno a esperar a que el Universo se pronuncie. Si estás a merced del Universo, no eres realmente libre.

So maybe God is orgasm.

She didn't want anyone reading her impermanent thoughts after she had permanently left the planet.

No one can understand exactly what grief feels like for another person, because depending on your relationship to the deceased, you feel your grief differently from everyone else on the planet." -Hannah

Der Mond wird doch gewöhnlich in Hamburg hergestellt, und zwar sehr nachlässig. Ich wundere mich, dass England dem keine Aufmerksamkeit schenkt. Ein lahmer Böttcher stellt ihn her, und der Dummkopf hat offenbar keine Ahnung vom Mond. Er nimmt geteertes Tauwerk und einen Teil Baumöl, und davon verbreitet sich über die Erde entsetzlicher Gestank, so dass man die Nase zustopfen muss. Und daher ist der Mond eine so zerbrechliche Kugel, auf der kein Mensch leben kann, auf der nur Nasen leben. Und deshalb können wir unsere Nasen selber nicht sehen, weil sie sich auf dem Mond befinden.

Cam lifted the back of the U-Haul door to find Perry holding up a pair of Nana's enormous, silky white underpants. 'Whoops,' said Cam. 'You'll have to make do.' And she shut the door, ignoring Perry's continued pounding on the side of the trailer. 'I packed some cute stuff for her, too,' Asher said regretfully.

My best friend Zoe has a perfect rear end and stick legs, and long, silky black hair. She is obviously not descended from William Penn. There are no dowdy pilgrims in her ancestry. Whereas I am grounded and mired in this place, she's like milkweed fluff that will take off with the first strong breeze. Stronger than fluff, though. She's like a bullet just waiting for someone to pull the trigger.

It’s so strange how one day you can be in this earth, and the next day not. Where did she go? Will I really ever see her again, or is that a fairy tale?

Be kind and you will be truly different. A standout. Unique and happy.

I think there could be different versions of the truth. You choose your truth, and then you build your life around it." -Danny

But perception becomes truth if you can get people to see it your way. Truth is a much more fluid concept than you choose to believe it is" -Danny

None of them are wholesome. There are straight men, and there are gay men, but there are no wholesome men" -Zoe

Sometimes, Cam thought, men really are the fairer sex. The more gallant and pure and innocent and understanding. Perhaps because they didn't have to fight so hard.

And you stole my underwear,' Nana added. 'What did you want with my underwear?

How 'bout just Clam? Or Clampbell?' 'Absolutely not.

Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt Ich freu mich, dass am Himmel Wolken ziehen und dass es regnet, hagelt, friert und schneit. Ich freu mich auch zur grünen Jahreszeit, wenn Heckenrosen und Holunder blühen. - Dass Amseln flöten und das Immen summen, Dass Mücken stechen und dass Brummer brummen. Dass rote Luftballons ins Blaue steigen. Dass Spatzen schwatzen. Und dass Fische schweigen. Ich freu mich, dass der Mond am Himmel steht und dass die Sonne täglich neu aufgeht. Dass Herbst dem Sommer folgt und Lenz dem Winter, gefällt mir wohl. Da steckt ein Sinn dahinter, wenn auch die Neunmalklugen ihn nicht sehn. Man kann nicht alles mit dem Kopf verstehn! Ich freu mich. Das ist des Lebens Sinn. Ich freue mich vor allem. Dass ich bin. In mir ist alles aufgeräumt und heiter; Die Diele blitzt. Das Feuer ist geschürt. An solchem Tag erklettert man die Leiter, die von der Erde in den Himmel führt. Da kann der Mensch, wie es ihm vorgeschrieben, - weil er sich selber liebt – den Nächsten lieben. Ich freue mich, dass ich mich an das Schöne und an das Wunder niemals ganz gewöhne. Dass alles so erstaunlich bleibt, und neu! Ich freue mich, dass ich… Dass ich mich freu.

He smiles at me, feeling the same elation I am, I can tell. I can tell because the feeling hangs between us like a rope. When you share a feeling with someone it takes on matter and weight. Even if you're the only ones who can sense it, it becomes a tangible thing with properties like shape and weight and heat." -Hannah

Connections between people were temporary. Selfish. Opportunistic. Designed to perpetuate the species. "Love" -- romantic love, anyway -- was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.

Iqbal, in seinem Poem "Die Moschee von Cordoba"- ein paar Verse daraus: Stein sei es, Farbe, sei's Ton: Wort sei es, Stimme, sei's Ton - Jegliches Wunder der Kunst wächst nur aus Herzensblut - seht! Ja, durch den Tropfen von Blut wird selbst der Felsen zum Herz; Ja, aus dem Herzblut, dem Leid, Lied, Sang und Klang erst entsteht. [aus "Nimm eine Rose und nenne sie Lieder" übersetzte Poesie der islamischen Völker von Annemarie Schimmel, insel Taschenbuch Ausgabe, S. 168]

It's like being dropped into a black hole. A vacuum of existence. When I turn around, I will be instantly orphaned because I'll know no one can hack it. And no one is in charge. But it's worse than being orphaned because at the same time I am tethered to his failure. His problems are tied around my heart. I will never get away. I am afraid. But I turn around.

Maybe hope and sadness can coexist, she thought. That felt like a significant idea. Maybe Cam could hope without denying that huge part of herself that needed to be sad. She didn’t have to sacrifice one for the other. Maybe all people were both hopeful and sad in every moment of their lives.

At the end of the street the sharp white needle of the church's steeple poked into the sky as if heaven were a big balloon that needed to be popped.

It's my opinion he don't want to kill you,' said Perea - 'at least not yet. I've heard deir idea is to scar and worry a man wid deir spells, and narrow misses, and rheumatic pains, and bad dreams, and all dat, until he's sick of life. Of course, it's all talk, you know. You mustn't worry about it. But I wunder what he'll be up to next.' 'I shall have to be up to something first,' said Pollock, staring gloomily at the greasy cards that Perea was putting on the table. 'It don't suit my dignity to be followed about, and shot at, and blighted in this way. I wonder if Porroh hokey-pokey upsets your luck at cards.' He looked at Perea suspiciously. 'Very likely it does,' said Perea warmly, shuffling. 'Dey are wonderful people.' ("Pollock And The Porrah Man")

Maybe if you thought about them, people never really disappeared. It sounded so corny, but there was a scientific explanation for it, too. If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter ( E = mc 2 ) and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe. Love, Cam had to admit, might be real. And love endures. Relationships endure. Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears.

We drive northwest for an hour to Michigan. Michigan is pretty much like rural New Jersey, except it's flattened out and well planned and pristine. Michigan would be New Jersey if you ran over it with a steamroller, excavated everything, and then put it back in neat rows with lots of space for everyone to move around in. It is practical and pretty, and it's a place where nothing spontaneous happens. This is a place where nothing happens unless people sit around and have a meeting about it first. The people are mostly white, which is weird, and the squirrels are black, also weird.

Zeit in Bursa In Bursa: ein Moscheehof, klein, uralt, Drin Wasser plätschernd in dem Springbrunn wallt, Und eine Mauer noch aus Orhans Zeiten, Gleichaltrig die Platane ihr zu Seiten, Die allseits heitren Tag durchscheinen läßt - Die Trauer, die noch eines Traumes Rest; Darinnen lächelt mir tief aus dem Innern, Gleichsam aus einem kühlenden Erinnern Des Himmels Blau, as Grün der eb'nen Flur Und jene göttlichste Architektur. Hier ist ein jeder Name Siegeskunde; In eins verflossen, leben Zeit, Tag, Stunde Den Zauber einer längst vergangnen Pracht Des Traums, der noch in diesen Steinen lacht. Das taubenäugige, das Schweigen auch Tönt noch mit jener Zeiten fernem Hauch - Gümüslü: Spiegel frühster Siegeshuld; Muradiye: Bittre Frucht nur der Geduld; Symbol des Lebens: weiße Nilüfer; Moscheen, Türben, Gärten altersschwer, Zahlloser Helden ruhmreiche Legenden, Kriegsschreie auch, die sich zum Himmel wenden, Trägt jeden zur Vergangenheit mit Macht. In diesem Traum schläft Bursa jede Nacht, Mit ihm erwacht es, wenn der Tag anbricht, Zypresse, Rose lacht im Silberlicht - Und der verhalt'nen Brunnen frischer Ton ... Inmitten eines Wunders leb ich schon Von Flügelschlagen und der Wasser Hall - Die Zeit hier: eine Ampel von Kristall ...