Joannie

“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years … the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder

“Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.”
― Alastair Bonnett, Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

“Time had changed the magical to mundane”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance