Wendy Wunder > Quotes

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“The present moment can be chopped into infinitely smaller present moments. This moment is forever. And it is all that matters.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“We weren't put on this earth to go it alone.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“You can't force your will with the universe. You just have to trust how things unfold.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“If Cam finally learned one lesson before she died, it would be that being kind was sometimes more important than being right.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“I think there could be different versions of truth, he says. You choose your truth, and then you build your life around it.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“. . . 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?”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“Having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“Only the present moment matters.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Museum of Intangible Things

“*Go cow-tipping.* Close enough to donkey-napping.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“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.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles