Quotes About Discovery

It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary's blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.

Look if you like but you will have to leap. Yes, I've always known that; I just didn't know that I knew.

Travel is a privilege because it gives you the world you were not given. It allows you to be extant in other versions.

I'm reading more than ever. I've started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room.

It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. Is this one of the mysteries of travel? One returns to preverbal pointing, smiling, shaping the air with gestures.

In writing a life you search for the white pebbles you didn't know you dropped to define your way. When they disappear, you instinctively follow the glimmer of swamp fire to the deep woods where time and event collapse, to the original source where love flourishes still.

Travel is a journey into one's own ignorance.

That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you.

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

What time are we upon and where do I belong?

Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home.

She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never remember who you are unless someone else shows it to you.

If we don't write our stories, how will we truly know who we are? How will we define the world? How will we touch the mysteries of life?

He slid his hands around behind me and placed his fingers on my shoulder blades, touching the bones reverently, as if he had discovered wings.

Life was a suitcase. "That'll

waterfall that has our name on it. Catch you later. As he passed the booth, Ken gave Todd a high

His eyes narrowed with scorn. "I know a lot of things about you I didn't know before, Enid. I know, for instance, that you're not as pure as you'd like me to believe.

also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.

I felt that I was hearing the answer to a question that I hadn't known enough to ask.

But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate into kindness or even conscience.

You are free. You just don't know it yet.

He liked going to the library...

Wonder is the seed of knowledge