Quotes About Discovery

I was married off without realizing what that entailed, but found myself in a a fairy tale. This land is beautiful, as if I dreamed it up in my head.

I had always believed marriage to be as my parents portrayed it, something safe and staid. With you, that will not be so.

Neither of them particularly understood what they were feeling because they were very innocent and neither of them had any idea what the strange sensations in their bodies could mean or how they could be satisfied.

Ays, I do believe you might have terranaut blood in your veins after all! You beguile me into revealing too much and no ordinary godling could do that!

This was the lure, the gem in the heart of the rock, he was sure of it. After years of practice he could sniff out items of interest very quickly.

At last! She would see the face of Resenence Jeopardy. She would look into his eyes, and they would be open for her. Something momentous would happen, the reason for her journey, her commitment to the idea of an unknown man would be revealed to her.

The next journey, the next story, he thought.

How fortunate to find these creatures here; their acquaintance might provide more experience than he could have hoped for.

This was how it should be, the close relationship between apprentice and master. The learning, the wonder of it.

What if this led only to another, deeper level of the lightless lands?

I have lived with the knowledge of the meaning of my name for a long time.

The significance of what happened in that room was not revealed to me for a long, long time.

You followed a story and the story was partly your own.

I can be your ally, Khaster. You should look beneath the surface." Khaster laughed uneasily. "That's a perilous course in Magrast. Sometimes, you find more than you bargained for." "And that's not always a bad thing.

Here, among the broken stones, I am sure the climax of my life is about to unfold.

I felt my strength begin to falter and told Beth we would examine only two more souls, when a condensed node of energy attracted my attention. Within it gleamed the radiance of a child, but the diffuse glow around it indicated minds expanded beyond normal consciousness. Could we be so fortunate as to discover what we were looking for this soon?

The world is a fascinating place, and I travel within it. I'm come to places like this to unearth their secrets. There are always plenty.

It was the cry of someone who'd looked in the abyss, someone who had previously not even known the abyss existed. It was the sound of a soul tearing.

From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they had been chained since the beginning of time.

Some say that we should stop exploring space, that the cost in human lives is too great. But Columbia's crew would not have wanted that. We are a curious species, always wanting to know what is over the next hill, around the next corner, on the next island. And we have been that way for thousands of years.

Logan didn't know which was worse – discovering your husband was a lying, adulterous bastard, or a dismembered corpse.

A thoughtful pause and then: 'Maybe to make it easy to find, but look like it's hard to find, so you'd find it but think it wasn't meant to be found, even though you only really found it because someone wanted it to be found?

You are on your quest. That is exciting. If you're balanced, your boat floats on a low tide in the same way as it does on a high tide.

It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.