Quotes About Discovery

Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing and point you toward some good poetry while I'm at it. It's what I do.

They're looking for you," she told him. "I heard it on the radio." "They better be careful," he said, without looking back at her. "They might find me.

Maybe she had found everything the world had to offer her: a notion very like despair.

The boulder they had been standing on wasn't a boulder.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about.

Harper's face was buried in Mr. Truffle's fur and with each inhalation she smelled the last nine months of his secret cat life: must, dust, grave dirt, basements and tall grass, beach and drainpipe, Dumpster and dandelions. The

The path to her old self is overgrown, lost in the briars. But her sleeping mind . . . you thingg, Michael, the sleeping mind has paths of its own? Trails the waking self has never walked?

They made their unsteady way up onto damp, firm sand, through the cool wet.

The road will make me better. The road always does.

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.   I

Science Fiction stories are the dazzling flares we launch into the darkness, to catch a glimpse of the country before us and show us our way.

A reading life... is an adventure without maps where you meet unexpected soulmates along the way.

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

Until they found out how to activate the tractor beam." "They can think?

Wait a second," Han said. "What are those things?" She shook her head. "Life-forms." "Thanks, Doc," he said.

You should consider traveling, spending some time seeing the world. It's best when you're young.

Miss Chemistry

and entered the main entrance to Ueno Park. Deciding to explore

WHAT, THEN, OF the secret of happiness? I know stories that touch upon it and even one by that name. But for me, the secret of happiness sits atop a long list of life's secrets. Perhaps that's the secret—there is no secret of happiness. Yet, we keep searching, maybe because the simple act of looking for it makes us happy. As

everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess...the scattered moments of kinship we feel with others are, when reduced to their most basic elements, accidental discoveries of kinship with ourselves.

Things change as they are discovered.

You have to let go of something. And usually it's the thing that you're doing well at that moment. It's a courageous step into the unknown.

You know what to do?" "Wander around," I said. "Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.