Quotes About Discovery

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. —MARCEL PROUST

On paper, did she and Mama even exist? And what if he found them anyway?

The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST

That evening, after dinner, Leni sat on her twin bed, reading. The Stand by Stephen King. In the past week, she'd read three books by him and discovered a new passion. Goodbye science fiction and fantasy, hello horror. She figured it was a reflection of her inner life. She'd rather have nightmares about Randall Flagg or Carrie or Jack Torrance than about her own past.

Your mama told me that if a girl grows up smelling sea air, she can never really breathe inland.

Time. Hers had gone too fast. She'd only just discovered who she was.

Mrs. Quisdorf picked that book out for you. That card, though, that's the real gift. It can take you anywhere, Loreda.

Have we? Have we lost our light, or have we perhaps just glimpsed it for the first time?

Someone said to me once that Alaska didn't create character; it revealed it.

he would learn that some roads could not be refound and that true love took time and effort Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that a life lived in the glare of summer sunlight never produced a rainbow.

I've been wanting to start over, dreaming of it. And now, finally, I know where I want to be when I begin this new part of my life.

If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

Si algo he aprendido en mi larga vida es esto: en el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser; en la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos.

Somewhere in your class is the girl who will be friends with you all through high school. I promise. You just have to find her.

first time. She'd

There had to be opportunities out there, but where would she find them? The library. Books held the answer to every question.

Maybe under the bridge at Deception Pass.

En el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser. En la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos en realidad.

Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris

en el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser; en la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos.

But you did it. You broke away. D'ya ever think life must be bigger than what we see here, Els?

Once, a lifetime ago, she had worried about girls, only a few years older than her, who had gone missing. The stories had given her nightmares at thirteen. Now she knew there were a hundred ways to be lost and even more ways to be found.

had never been

Everyone has a story. Maybe yours just starts up here.