Quotes About Discovery

she opened a book and was therefore saved, discovering that a novel was as great an escape as any spell.

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.

make you want things you hadn't even known existed.

If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.

But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.

If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.

The only way to understand a river is to jump into it.

You know what love is?...It's what you least expect.

Witches are made, not born.

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.

this occurred only once in a person's life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life

he discovered that the stars in the southern world were far brighter than any he had known, and that beneath the water there lived creatures so immense they created waves, as if they were masters of the ocean, and of the universe, and of fate.

Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.

What do you have there?" he asked, always interested to discover what a person was reading, for he believed it was possible to see inside a person's soul once you knew which books mattered to them.

once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again.

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.

Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion.

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...