Quotes About Discovery

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

The water is very green and has a sweet taste, both boys wrote in their diaries, at different times.

When I saw you for the first time, I thought you had a secret life.

That inability to discover whether you jumped or were pushed brings about a deadened gaze and a downfall all it's own.

Where do you see yourself in ten years' time?" she asked. My answer: "Not sure, but maybe on a beach reading a really good mystery. Not a murder mystery, but the kind where the narrator has to find out what year it is and why he was even born .

Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?

She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.

Vikings, it seems, make their own way.

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

We packed whole lives into bundles in search of what chooses us, what wants to come back to the surface, what needs to be said. We had so many dreams we didn't know what to make of them.

you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.

Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on.

This is Great Tew. You can't find it on the map, you have to get lost on the way to Oxford.

This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it.

The further from home you wander, the closer you get to Siberia.

Our job is to find out the truth, even if it is buried deep in the earth.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, la que tiene en sí el único milagro viviente que existe en la tierra.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.

il me faisait découvrir des auteurs qui savaient mettre tout plein de mots qui coupaient dans mon ventre, et alors ça faisait du bien de saigner un peu.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.