Quotes About Discovery

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.

I love her to this day. Love of her led me to leave her. But some other kind of love, whose dimensions were beyond both description and comprehension, was fueling my feelings and moving me in directions that I hadn't anticipated. I had found love. I had lost love. Love of my calling was pushing me on.

You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.

Secrets. They add to the darkness of the world but they also make you want to find out more...

She'd been so certain she knew every crevice of his heart, but Jacob was like a country she'd only traveled through halfway.

And that everyone has to find their own path, even brothers.

You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

Sometimes we think we know people at first sight," he said. "As though we'd met them a hundred times before, in another life, in another world. And then we realize that we know nothing. How did they look as children? What dreams startle them from their sleep?

Abenteuer kann man doch nicht planen wie Ballett oder so was. Die warten um die Ecke und - zack! - plötzlich sind sie da!

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring-clean…. It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas that he'd mislaid and forgotten…. There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish? Ted Hughes, "Leftovers," from The Dreamfighter

He had lived in Venice for more than fifteen years and he still didn't know all the city's nooks and crannies — but then again no one did.

widened greedily, Meggie concluded they could only be discussing a book

Glaub es oder glaub es nicht!«, sagte sie. »In einem der letzten Bücher, die ich gekauft habe, einer wunderschönen Erstausgabe aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert, habe ich doch tatsächlich eine eingetrocknete Salamischeibe als Lesezeichen gefunden.

Noch eind Land, das ich zum ersten Mal hinter den Spiegeln bereise. Ich kenne deine Welt so viel besser als meine. - Jacob

Sie wird eine Füchsin zur Mutter haben und einen Vater, der aus einer anderer Welt stammt und den Namen Reckless zu Recht trägt. All deine Spiegel werden zerspringen und sie wird dein wahres Gesicht kennen.

Nach meiner Erfahrung erklärt jeder neue Ort uns eine neue Region unseres Herzens. Als trügen wir die ganse Welt auch in unserem Innern und müssten sie nur entdecken.

Elinor Loredan: But I just adore everything Persian. Meggie Folchart: You've been to Persia, then? Elinor: Yes, a hundred times. Along with St. Petersburg, Paris, Middle-Earth, distant planets and Shangri-la. And I never had to leave this room. Books are adventure. They contain murder and mayhem and passion. They love anyone who opens them.

Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry that its promise had not been kept. But Inkheart was not a book of that

Was auch immer est ist<<, flüsterte er ihr zu, >>du wei?t, wir werden es finden.

Es ist immer dasselbe mit den gefährlichen Abenteuern, sie beginnen ganz harmlos.

Meggie fand, dass dieses erste Flüstern bei jedem Buch etwas anders klang, je nachdem, ob sie schon wusste, was es ihr erzählen würde, oder nicht.

Os livros poderiam ensiná-la tanto sobre este mundo e outros lugares distantes, sobre animais e plantas, sobre estrelas! Podiam ser janelas e portas, asas de papel par ajudá-la a voar para bem longe.