Quotes About Discovery

I have this theory actually, that after an absence you discover in that first glimpse what you really think and feel about another person. You know things you couldn't know before

I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

In science, even more than elsewhere, to suppress a truth is to consent to a lie.

But one consequence of learning anything new is that one usually learns more than anticipated.

Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

Just once I knew what life was for.

I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.

I live so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond.

This is what happens on journeys—the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.

It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods.

Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. It was like she'd walked out of a dusty old wardrobe and found Narnia.

The ground beneath our feet is home to more untapped wonder than the skies above our head

CHAPTER 1 Charlotte

this is a magical land where every one of you can find exactly the book you need at any given time—even if you don't know you need it. Every one of you can find the book that will change your life.

Meditation is said to cleanse you, make you peaceful. Peace Faye would welcome, but the cleansing part scares her, as if she might be bleached invisible by the sun, as if some part of her might go whirling down the drain, a part as yet undiscovered, but without which she'll never be whole

Thank Goodness I have walked in circles long enough to wear the soles of my shoes so thin that the diamonds on which I stand can now get my attention

Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this book were put here for her guidance alone.

Pasijuntat tikras, kad paslapties raktas guli kur nors skalbykl?je arba tarp knygos lap?: daugiau nebeieškokit. Dažnai koduotos žinut?s slepiasi ne skalbykl?se, o širdyse. Tetr?ksta tik kodo, kad gal?tume iššifruoti.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough.

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find.