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Quotes About Discovery

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking.
~ Chuck Wendig
You could have been the light of your world. But you never found your switch.
~ Unknown
I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind.
~ Unknown
I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Road trip?" "I'm going to dig up some dead relatives," she went on, "and ask them where the family money is.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Adrian. Adrian was alive, and he was at Oden's Ford. And no one had told her these four long years, because they thought she would do something stupid.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Non c'è niente di più solitario dell'avventura.
~ Unknown
Siobhan's smiled broadened, "Aye, it matters naught where one is born, as long as one discovers where one is truly meant to be." -- The Countess by Claire Delacroix
~ Unknown
Who knows how long it's been there? It could date back a few hundred years for all I know.' 'Or to Roman times,' he says, smiling wryly.
~ Unknown
Those who marry to escape something usually find something else.
~ Unknown
At first, I struggled with some of the bigger words, but Kinsella kept his fingernail under each, patiently, until I guessed it or half-guessed it and then I did this by myself until I no longer needed to guess, and read on. It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.
~ Unknown
It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.
~ Unknown
I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.
~ Claire LaZebnik
I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.
~ Claire Messud
While other girls were reading teen magazines and romances, you found The Story of O, and it was like a homecoming." "Yes," she breathed. Oh god, yes. "You
~ Claire Thompson
But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.
~ CLAMP
You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?
~ Unknown
Why should she try to do these things? What motivates a child to grow?
~ Unknown
Clara Claiborne Park
~ Unknown
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.
~ Clarence Birdseye
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
~ Clarence Darrow