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Quotes About Discovery

Though you work like mad to keep parts of you undiscovered, it is horrible to imagine that you will be completely successful. As the psychologist D.W. Winnicott wrote, "It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.)
~ Jennifer Niven
Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me.
~ Jennifer Niven
The last wandering
~ Jennifer Niven
Theodore Finch, April 3. "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!
~ Jennifer Niven
If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch.
~ Jennifer Niven
I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something....Let's go. Let's count for something. Let's get off that ledge.
~ Jennifer Niven
Violet Markey.There's more to you than meets the eye.
~ Jennifer Niven
Yesterday at this time, I didn't even know her.
~ Jennifer Niven
I think about Finch and Sir Patrick Moore and black holes and blue holes and bottomless bodies of water and exploding stars and event horizons, and a place so dark that light can't get out once it's in.
~ Jennifer Niven
Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it.
~ Jennifer Niven
I have a section for New Nameless Web Magazine.
~ Jennifer Niven
I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.
~ Jennifer Niven
By the way? For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet— there is such a thing as a Ariana Grande day.
~ Jennifer Niven
We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary. c)
~ Jennifer Niven
This is what i need, i think. A change of scenery.
~ Jennifer Niven
Fall in love more often.Love the journey, not just the result-Camryn Manheim
~ Ellyn Spragins
I did see pictures of Mom posing nude in the backyard Reno left on the dresser one time and I had an intimate look at my mother.
~ Elmore Leonard
A good investigator doesn't know what he's looking for till he sees it.
~ Elmore Leonard
It's easy to get stuck in one track. When something tosses you out of it, you begin to realize there's scenery you haven't noticed.
~ Emilie Richards
Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.
~ Emily Auerbach
Emily Brightwell
~ Bexley's Pills
Understanding dawned in the Witherspoon's eyes. "Of course, of course." He forced himself to laugh. "You are very clever Mrs. Jeffries. You're onto me.
~ Emily Brightwell
It was a marvelous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her
~ Emily Bronte