Quotes About Discovery

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

New can be an emotion.

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

He's just a friend, we'd argue. But if he was just a friend, why was he hidden, why were we so upset to have him discovered?

So what's your story?" Ryan asks. Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?" "Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.

I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.

It takes a traveler, not a tourist, to search for something deeper. Travelers want to find the wavelength on which they and the city connect.

If he said anything to me, I would gather the sentences like a shell seeker.

If I didn't have music, I don't know if I could ever be truly happy, and if I didn't have these moments, I would never find music. It is everywhere, in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid, and I discovered that letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been

And you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

There is no way to describe how I feel. This is something I've never known. She has told me something I've never known.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.

and at first i didn't really know jed was although i was sure he knew that i was but gradually we both knew and we knew.

I collected their papers. The ones that blew into Brooklyn. They were just there at first. I didn't even know what they were. But once I did, I went all over the place, picking them up. I don't know what to do with them. I mean, they're meaningless now, but they still exist. You can't throw out something like that. You can't make them gone like that.

After a year, Peter and Neil feel they are beyond the discovery phase. But we're sure that they will continually discover this not to be the case. There's always something new to learn about the person you love.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you'll find there, but hoping it will be something good.

It's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's for sale. No - it's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's free!

We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite.

Back to the present. I found you in my locker the next morning. Not you. A photograph. But for a moment, it felt like finding a body, It felt like finding what you I needed to be found.