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~ Rick Riordan
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
~ Rick Warren
Death was the end. Sometimes it took a whole lifetime to understand that. He thought of Sunny, journeying restlessly in search of the thing he had left behind. Promise me you'll make the most of your life, he said to Bertie. I promise, Bertie said, already at twenty-four knowing it was unlikely she would be able to do so.
~ Kate Atkinson
I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. He will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.
~ Kate Atkinson
The war, Dr. Kellet said to Ursula, had made many people search for meaning in new places—"Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense of their loss.
~ Kate Atkinson
But you can't sit around waiting for a mentor to find you. You have to search for them, and that may mean looking beyond your immediate department or area. Your
~ Kate White
I stared in silence as Miranda swooped, shrieking, down the playground slide, searching to see alive in her all the dead love in me.
~ Katherine Dunn
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ Kathleen Norris
The world was full of collectors, scouring the earth for pieces of themselves.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Might as well tell you. In that shop we were in, they had this shelf with loads of records and tapes. So I was looking for the one you lost that time. Do you remember, Kath? I never told you at the time, but I tried really hard to find it. I remember looking for ages. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
when we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel around the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I suppose I'm saying Josie and I will always be together at some level, some deeper one, even if we go out there and don't see each other any more. I can't speak for her. But once I'm out there, I know I'll always keep searching for someone just like her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
when we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel around the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk." I
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
it was indeed 'as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there'.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn't be continued. He told the Mother he'd searched and searched and found nothing like that. But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her. That's why I think now Mr Capaldi was wrong and I wouldn't have succeeded. So I'm glad I decided as I did.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr Capaldi pensava che dentro Josie non ci fosse niente di tanto speciale da non poter esser proseguito. Diceva alla Madre che aveva cercato dappertutto e non l'aveva mai trovato. Ma adesso credo che non cercasse nel posto giusto. C'era invece qualcosa di molto speciale, ma non era dentro Josie. Era dentro quelli che l'amavano.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I searched the darkness. "I'm over here." I spun to see Rafe on the edge of the clearing. He stepped back, hands raised. "That was a warning, so I wouldn't spook you." A wry smile. "Not much chance of that, I suppose, finding me outside your house at two in the morning.
~ Kelley Armstrong
They're squatting in the cabin," I said. "Using it as a base of operations. We should still get in there if we can. Not just to search for phones or radios, but to get food. Without it, we won't be in any shape to run or fight back if we're caught." Daniel looked at me. "Yes, I know, it's a ballsy move," I said. He smiled. "All right. Let's check it out.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'm going higher first," I said, "to look around for Annie." "Good idea." I called down to Daniel to say what we were doing. Rafe was already two branches above me. I scrambled up after him. The faster I went, the faster he did, and I thought it was just coincidence until he grinned down at me.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Where are your pills?" Daniel said. "Bathroom." "We'll find them," I said, and started to go. Corey grabbed my sleeve. "Stay." "Good idea," Sam said. "My bedside manner sucks. I'll help Daniel.
~ Kelley Armstrong