Quotes About Discovery

I am willing, though, to tear up the timetable and take some new routes; and I know I shall find, at some unlikely terminus, a hand that is meant to rest in mine.

You start out, you start talking, you don't even know what you're going to say. You don't even know your way to the end of the sentence. You don't know anything. Then suddenly you do know you have to walk blind and you walk slap into the truth.

Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes.

For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.

People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn't know were there, even the ones they wouldn't have thought to call beautiful themselves.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

That's how you recognize love: you've never met it before.

When I returned to Japan, I learned that it really had been my brother.

Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was officially declared dead in December, 1959. At the time it was thought that he and his comrade Kinshichi Kozuka had died of wounds sustained five years earlier in a skirmish with Philippine troops. A six-month search organized by the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare in early 1959 had uncovered no trace of the two men.

When he left Japan, he told his friends that he was going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda and the Abominable Snowman, in that order. Presumably the panda and the Snowman are still waiting, because after only four days on Lubang, Suzuki found Onoda and persuaded him to meet with a delegation from Japan, which Suzuki undertook to summon.

Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)

How will I know when I've learned it, since I don't know it now?" he asks. The question sounds like a riddle. "Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one," I answer finally.

I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him.

I step out of my second life the same way I stepped out of my first, holding too few things and with great uncertainty about what will happen next.

You don't know what you are.

When you don't know what you're searching for," he says, "you have to look absolutely everywhere.

A small smile turns up a corner of my mouth. I feel the sharpness of my teeth and roll my tongue over them. For the first time, I like the feeling.

Jude, you cant really think I dont know its you. I knew it was you from the moment you stepped into the brugh. Page 69

It takes bravery to be an adventurer," Odette said, lifting her drink and walking away. "And what better adventure than the discovery of our true selves?

This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.

Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious.

The universe belongs to the curious.