Quotes About Discovery

I believe that the wilderness is where God is found.

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

I gained an insight, a purloined-letter kind of thing.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary

What if I never stop inventing?

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, and how can I get back?

I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.

There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

I thought he had to look for what he was looking for, and realize it no longer existed, or never existed. p. 233

desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out, was a profusion of geography, of atmosphere, of full empty air.

The more I found, the less I understood.

There are more places you haven't heard of than you've heard of!

I liked watching the baby make fists.

I found it, and now I can't look for it

She had been married to your father for twelve years. I had known her for fifteen years. It was the first time she told me she loved me.

How, after all, can one miss something one has never known?

And historians have now discovered an even earlier Thanksgiving than the 1621 Plymouth celebration that English-American historians made famous. Half a century before Plymouth, early American settlers celebrated Thanksgiving with the Timucua Indians in what is now Florida —the best evidence suggests that the settlers were Catholic rather than Protestant, and spoke Spanish rather than English. They dined on bean soup.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.