Quotes About Discovery

It's okay that I'm not sure what's next, that it might be something unexpected.

Love, he thought. It would come out soon enough. Words and feelings were all churned up together inside him, finding each other like lost parts of an atom. He didn't try to push them apart or away. He let them float in the new fullness in his chest.

What I have had for the past six years, what has been constant and steady in my life is the novel I've been writing. This has been my home, the place I could always retreat to. The place I could sometimes even feel powerful, I tell them. The place where I am most myself. Maybe some of you, I tell them, have found this place already. Maybe some of you will find it years from now. My hope is that some of you will find it for the first time today by writing.

A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?' Tillie said. 'Good God,

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don't even know I'm going.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

I regard the discovery of one's favorite author as the most critical event in one's intellectual development.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

discoveries: a burial pit in Wales that contained the remains of what most scholars agreed was the first-century English queen Boadicea. She had been found buried in an ancient war chariot, surrounded by weapons, golden armbands, and other trinkets.

Lincoln Child

Sometimes the discovery of something we can classify as our voice coincides with a weariness with that voice, and the struggle begins to create a new voice.

was. Laura saw it more as an opportunity to spend three months in

here to read the rest of the story!

It was said that a man does not look behind a door unless he has once stood there.

Linda Buckley-Archer

The thing about undercover work is that instead of laying low and trying to stay out of trouble, you basically walk around with your stick and jab it into every beehive you can find just to see what flies out.

Whoa! What the hell is that?" "It's a fuckin' head!" Josh swallowed a big wad of something gross at the back of his throat. The two boys exchanged looks. Scott's mouth was open so wide Josh could see the cavities in his back molars. "You mean like a human?" "Well, duh. You ever seen a cow with teeth like that?

available to them, generally display a refreshing enthusiasm and eagerness about learning. Learning isn't a chore, they've discovered, it's a by-product of engaging in activity with a fresh, eager, hungry mind. If we can bend our own thinking processes far enough to give play its rightful due, we could call creativity the play of the mind.

Those who think differently from us sometimes possess truths we have not yet discovered.

Sometimes it takes a loss before we can understand what it means to be found.

Life's full of surprises

I don't remember exactly when books became my refuge, but it was in the pages of a world created out of thin air that I began to find pieces I recognized as myself.