Quotes About Discovery
But I'm not saying anything because I've just noticed the brick. Or rather the lack of brick. Of course, some of the dark shapes on the floor probably are bricks, but they don't look like my brick. The one that can be up against the door. But isn't.
~ Unknown
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Whenever we come to a new place, I waylaid strangers and dragged their stories and songs and jokes from them before they ever had a chance to find out my name.
~ Nicola Griffith
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She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn't see the pattern. There was a piece missing.
~ Nicola Griffith
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Tomorrow I'd start learning this city the way I liked best, by moving through it.
~ Nicola Griffith
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Just as I thought I was beginning to know this world and understand it, it throws more magic at me." "What's life without magic? Turn your magic into a song, share it with others." "You know I can't sing." "A story, then.
~ Nicola Griffith
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Parties are like life-you think that what you see is all there is, until you discover the next layer, a whole other culture that's going on all around you but you never knew existed.
~ Nicola Griffith
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The child's world changed late one afternoon, though she didn't know it.
~ Nicola Griffith
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You have thrown out a signal bright enough to draw any who can hear and see; now they will be clamouring to enter you, to know you, to have you as a bee might climb inside a flower. And like a bee they will strip you bare and leave you heavy will all that makes you who you are.
~ Nicola Griffith
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In the wild waste, a girl, growing.
~ Nicola Griffith
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Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted to do all along.
~ Nicola Griffith
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One afternoon when the winter was done and the world had begun to turn towards the light, with green shoots thrusting through the dark earth, the girl roamed the high fell in the steeper, northern part of the valley.
~ Nicola Griffith
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She will never say what the girl's true name is, or who the other was, and the stories are never the same. And always the cave is hidden.
~ Nicola Griffith
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Hild, on the first boat with Eorpald and Edwin, smelt it before she saw it: the old, cold scent of deep, turned dirt; the smell of bones.
~ Nicola Griffith
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She is filled with a light she does not yet understand, my king.
~ Nicola Griffith
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I missed you showing me things, making them magic. So I decided to find them myself. Like this.
~ Nicola Griffith
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I had not heard her laugh before. It was subtle and warm as swirled brandy.
~ Nicola Griffith
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These are tales of the world," she told her. "All the adventure, all the different and new you need.
~ Nicola Griffith
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When a time came to carve her name, would it be Dawnged, girl of Ystrad, T´ywi or Tâl, payment to Elen, or would she one day find her true name?
~ Nicola Griffith
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She touched the pool and fell the echo of that faraway lake, the promise of all that was wide and bright and clear that she would one one day find.
~ Nicola Griffith
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I was hungry for another viewpoint, to see Julia for the first time.
~ Nicola Griffith
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While she watched, she let her own feet find their way; she knew every root, every rut and hare scrape, every fallen bough in this glade.
~ Nicola Griffith
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Las verdades no están en la circunferencia de un círculo cuyo centro es el hombre. Las verdades se levantan en parajes fragosos que el hombre recorre siguiendo los meandros de una senda sinuosa que las revela, las oculta, finalmente las ostenta o las esconde.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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To discover the fool there is no better reagent than the word "medieval." He immediately sees red.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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A revolutionary discovers the "true spirit of the revolution" only when he stands in front of a revolutionary tribunal sentencing him to death.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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