Quotes About Discovery

I made only one real friend while I 'loitered' around the dockyard. His name was Old Jack Tar. Mr Tar lived in an abandoned railway carriage at the end of the sheds. Uncle Stan told me to keep away from Old Jack because he was a stupid, dirty old tramp. He didn't look that dirty to me, certainly not as dirty as Stan, and it wasn't long before I discovered he wasn't stupid either

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. It makes me crazy, she said. You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it.

Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.

There was nowhere to go that wouldn't be me.

But then she came closer and we saw the light in her eyes we have been looking for ever since.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

We had never known her. They brought us here to find that out.

So that was our love affair. Wordless, blinkered, a nighttime thing, a dream thing. There were reasons on my side for this as well. Whatever it was that I was was best revealed slowly, in flattering light. Which meant not much light at all. Besides, that's the way it goes in adolescence. You try things out in the dark. You get drunk or stoned and extemporize.

It's a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex. Before the routine sets in, or the love. Back when the groping is largely anonymous. Sandbox sex. It starts in the teens and lasts until twenty or twenty-one. It's all about learning to share. It's about sharing your toys.

From the beginning I was aware that there was something improper about the way I felt about Clementine Stark, something I shouldn't tell my mother, but I wouldn't have been able to articulate it. I didn't connect this feeling to sex. I didn't know sex existed

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.

I've always feared growing older because I thought I'd run out of interests, but what this project has taught me is that I've barely scratched the surface of what I could try next.

Couple this discovery with the realization that my things shouldn't own me and that life's meant to be lived, not displayed on Pinterest, and my sense is I've finally achieved something close to balance. I feel excellent about actually having

I've always wanted to take a swim wherever it is they snap those screensaver photos—Fiji? Bora Bora? The Maldives?—and sleep in a hotel room that's more of a hut built on a dock over the water. After reading The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, I'm dying to see the sun set in Botswana. I want to visit Indian temples and volunteer at an elephant sanctuary.

milk, powdered heavy cream, and powdered butter." "Didn't know a lot of these products existed

and World Cuisine educations are on temporary hold since I'm on my way to

During this crisis, I've discovered that I would thrive under house arrest. So there's that.

Being six is the closest most of us will ever come to understanding what it's like to have a butler.