Quotes About Discovery

My dearest Eden, I suppose, someday, after I have passed, you will dig through my journals and happen upon this letter. I pray that it finds you as amazed at the life God has gifted to you as I was when I discovered a daughter

I love books. They're like a piece of my life I haven't lived yet.

God wants to break through the identities we've constructed for ourselves, the fears we have of discovery, to say, "I see you. I know you. I know everything about you, and yet I love you. Period. You don't have to fear the truth with Me because I already know it. I know exactly who you are, and I still died to save you.

wrong about Jenny always wearing it. She could have taken it off, packed it away, or buried it in the backyard.

Words are such fun!

Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.

the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper," a quote by W. B. Yeats

He's more than just the baby she found all those years ago. He's the proof that out of a great pile of ashes you can still find something that the fire didn't take.

found out how fast things can change. You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

children, as they grow, learn about the world and their place in it by testing what they know and experimenting with what they don't.

It's as if there's a bridge they need to cross. And it's like crossing over the ocean, Brette.

Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Life is a journey, not a destination.

The gaping unknown

You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

The past was speaking . . . what was the difference now? She had the feeling she'd walked into a house she thought she knew well and discovered a room she hadn't seen before. Maybe it wasn't too late. Maybe they did have a chance.

parents dead. Can't backpack, can't do hip hop. Who am I, really? Now I get to find out.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye. Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived. It wasn't like going to a store with my mom, which guaranteed a tug-of-war between what I wanted and what my mother was willing to buy me; in the library I could have anything I wanted.

You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?

There are a lot of surprising things in the library; a lot of things you don't think of when you try to imagine all of what a library might contain.

Being an orchid hunter has always meant pursuing beautiful things in terrible places.

Our visits to the library were never long enough for me. The place was so bountiful. I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye. Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived.

In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place.

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