"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

"I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything."
— Bill Bryson

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Wonder. Go on and wonder."
— William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)

"Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner"
— Ruth Reichl