Quotes About Discovery

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

And so it is with many people who casually live on the outer edge of their own souls until great thunderstorms of sorrow reveal hidden depths within, which were never before known or suspected

Let loose the lines holding you to the shore and sail into the deep.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?

Maybe when you give up your dreams, you find out that there's more to life than dreaming.

He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off

Plum guessed it stood to reason that out of all these billions of books at least one of them had to be dragon porn.

They went around the room telling stories about how they'd gotten here. No two were exactly the same, but there was always a certain family resemblance. Somebody went looking for a lost ball in an alley, or a stray goat in a drainage ditch, or fallowed an inexplicable extra cable in the high school computer room which led to a server closet that had never been there before.

Life was good. It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.

Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

He was finally on the other side, down the rabbit hole, through the looking glass. He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.

He was experimenting cautiously with the idea of being happy, dipping an uncertain toe into those intoxicatingly carbonated waters.

who hadn't at some point in his life wanted to climb to the top of a sailing ship in full flight?

would have to find something else, he thought mazily. Something new. Couldn't stay here anymore. Couldn't go back. Only forward.

It wasn't time yet. You'll find it again, if you look hard enough.

We found some of them. It was always either a fight

We shall now seek that which we shall not find. —Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur

Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman

Of course I'm not sure," he said. "That's why you go. To find out if it's enough. You just have to be sure you want to find out.

The ones who go around knocking on doors and looking for clues never find the thing, the Grail or whatever it is. It's more a matter of having the right attitude.