Days of Wonder Quotes

“still look back with wonder at that summer.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“they’ll look at me and they’ll always wonder?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“And Ella, in a blaze of gratitude, using what she had learned, helped them.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“You’ll never love anyone as much as you will your child.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“She was nauseous with hope.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“For a moment, she wasn’t in this prison at all. She was flying, and the feeling of wonder made her laugh out loud.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“Plotting his death was a fantasy. Until it wasn’t.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“neighborhood again, felt right to her—as if an empty space inside her were slowly being filled.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“let go of the wondering,”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“Ella couldn’t trust love, no matter how inviting it might seem.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“she could help others, then maybe she could help herself.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“used to noise. Plus, to her surprise, it made her feel less alone.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“she had to somehow be close to the one beautiful thing she had created in her life.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“then, amid the lingering fear, a new feeling began to take hold: pride.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“confusing guilt and innocence really were.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“couldn’t, just for self-preservation. They had to keep still so they wouldn’t break.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“China were being abandoned because of the one-child rule.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“SIX YEARS AGO, she had lost everything. Jude. Her freedom. Her future. And her baby.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“smells and noise and color filled Ella with wonder—”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“Now she didn’t feel like dancing, didn’t feel anything but guilt.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel