Quotes About Discovery

It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers.

Every book is a world.

No one travels without purpose. Those who are lost wish to be lost.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

The walls of the bookstore have wood panels up to just above her head, but beyond that is blue wallpaper. Maya can't reach the wallpaper unless she has a chair. The wallpaper has a bumpy, swirling pattern, and it is pleasing to rub her face against it. She will read the word damask in a book one day and thinks, Yes, of course, that's what it's called . In contrast, the word wainscoting will come as a huge disappointment.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

I had thought the way I felt about Will was just a room, but it had turned out to be a mansion. He had turned out to be a mansion.

She walked through another gate. It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)

Reading a great book.

isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

And to see her almost made him want to cry. It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution. There's Sadie, he thought. Yes.

The child's body moves the way a body can move before it has felt or even encountered the idea of pain.

You are happy and you are bored. You need to find a new pastime.

It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution.

Talvolta i libri non ci trovano finchè non è il momento giusto.

The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.

Nadie viaja sin motivo. Quien se pierde es porque desea perderse.

They did have a secret. The secret was the delight one feels when discovering a person who speaks one's native tongue.

We are not quite short stories. At

?ôi khi ph?i ch? tá»›i má»™t th?i Ä'i?m thích h?p, nh?ng cu?n sách má»›i tìm ??n chúng ta.

Who the hell are you?' A.J. asks the baby.

The best way to get to Margarettown is to 'try' to get lost.

A Trip to the Beach By Maya Tamerlane Fikry Teacher: Edward Balboni, Alicetown High School Grade 9