Quotes About Discovery

You want to go places you can't go.

And Grace—meeting Grace has been like discovering a long-lost sister, a kindred spirit who's been out in the world all this time forging a nearly identical path.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

To the ends of the earth, madam, to say nothing of back and forth in this garden.

Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

Eve was created to know and walk with God and to make him known to others by reflecting his character in her life. This is a woman's true path to fulfillment and meaning — the only way we will ever discover who we are and find our purpose. And it is accessible to all of us.

Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.

Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel," Nancy told Captain Rossland.

I'm Fred Mathews

Suddenly Nancy spotted the mysterious Arab

Then one last thought tugs at me, so I turn back. "So why did you name me Tamsin?" I ask. "You always promised to tell me later. Even though, technically, it's earlier." My grandmother's smile flickers, deepens. "It's how you introduced yourself to me tonight. I just assumed that's what you wanted to be named.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

I have to find her. I check out hiding places in the lanes, behind bushes. A place where a boy could pull in a girl for a quick kiss. But there's nobody.

Read my story, walk through these woods, and when you get to the other side, you may not even realize that you're carrying something out that you didn't have when you went in. A little tick of an idea, clinging to your scalp or hidden in a fold of skin. Somewhere out of sight. By the time you discover it, it's already begun to prey on you; perhaps it's merely gouged your flesh, or perhaps it's already begun to nibble away at your central nervous system.

You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking you.

I love making up stories. I love getting lost in other worlds and being with other characters. I love the way I think I'm in control and then the characters and stories take on a life of their own. I love how I can incorporate my own faith into the stories I write. Writing is both discovery and creating and with each book I do that. Discover and create. It can be an adventure some days, a nightmare others. I also like that I can do this wearing ugly clothes.

My son was on Craigslist and he saw it!

If I'd known about all the masturbating I would generate—well, that would've been extraordinarily weird from many angles and I'm glad it didn't come up, as it were.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara

People are always looking into the dark, Zara. We're afraid of what we might see. It might be the dark outside, it might be the dark of our own souls, but I figure it's better to get caught looking than to never know. You get me?

People are always looking into the dark. We're afraid of what we might see. It might be the dark outside, it might be the dark of our own souls, but I figure it's better to get caught looking that to never know.

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.