Quotes About Journey

No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.

Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.

It is my dearest hope that one day I shall be the one to discover the GUT-the Grand Unified Tale, the one which will bind together all our Theorems and Laws, leaving out not one Orphan Girl or Youngest Son or Cup of Life and Death. Not one Descent or Ascent, not one Riddle or Puzzle or Trick. One perfect golden map that can guide any soul to its desire and back again. I will be the one to do it, I know it. I hope I know it. I know I hope it.

he had not guessed how much of the body of a Quest was simply walking .

You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men—and exceedingly stupid men, usually—do.

What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map

I could not say what creeps and whispers through the branches and down the threaded Road, but I hear it, and I am not afraid.

You haven't met your Way yet. It hasn't so much as kissed your hand! You haven't even at the door of the hall where your Way dances. But look here, look see, I've got them, I've caught them up just for you, a big bouquet of anywhere you want to go. Just pick a bloom, my girl, hold it to your pretty nose.

It's a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you're the protagonist, but really, you're just backstory.

I lost sight of myself so long ago that I'm hesistant to try to find myself. I'm afraid to begin. Existing sometimes gives me heart palpitations. I'm so afraid to be me.

The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.

They found themselves striding into the herald's square of a place called Mercutio before they could discuss whether it was nightingales or sparrows that sang so prettily in the woods.

That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow.

At the end of every adventure, you must ask if it was ever really your adventure at all. Perhaps you were only an obstacle in someone else's quest.

I suppose because it's boring to keep telling stories where people just get born and grow up and get married and die. So they add strange things in, to make it interesting when a person is born, more satisfying when they get married, sadder when they die.

Narrators may go where they please.

I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.

I think I shall never be free. I think I traded me freedom for a better story.

He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.

The first two human beings to set foot on another world stepped out of the jelly-hatch and into the warm, ever-so-slightly joy-coloured light of Litost's twin suns, which the Klavaret refer to collectively as Our Mums.

though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.

Questing Physicks isn't like the Quiet and Queer branches. You can't do it at home in a comfortable chair—you have to be out in the thick of the business, with your tools on your belt and your heart on your sleeve!

A house, a carriage, a balloon, a ship, a racing stallionocerosupine! Is that a thing? It sounds like it ought to be, so let's say it is!