Quotes About Discovery

There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

But then she hadn't just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

We will go. Nowhere we know. We don't have to talk at all.

In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then to right now and on and on as far as her eyes could take her.

You couldn`t always know what would matter to you.

It was a strange thing about college. You felt like you were supposed to be finding your life there. Each person you saw, you thought, Will you mean something to me? Will we figure into each other's lives?

the hugeness of the world was a pool to dive into, not somewhere to drown.

No one who reads can ever be bored

She took the first tentative, terrifying, exhilarating steps into her future.

Maybe knitting is like writing a story-- an act of discovery. But that seems unlikely, given the very precise directions.

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

Sea City, here we come!

All of a sudden it dawned on me. I knew. I just knew. I was adopted, and my adoption papers were in there. If I were adopted, that would explain why I didn't look like anyone in my family, why I didn't act like anyone in my family, and why there were so few pictures of me. I wasn't Mom and Dad's real kid. I was an unwanted baby, or an orphan like Emily Michelle.

All week I kept the awful secret of my adoption to myself. I didn't even tell Stacey what I'd discovered, and Stacey is my best friend in the world. I wanted to talk to Stacey, but I couldn't. Not yet. There must, I thought, be some terrible reason for keeping my adoption a secret, but what could the terrible reason be?

Ready for New York and whatever it held for me.

brachiosaurus weighed about 77 tons, which is about 154 thousand pounds.

What an interesting place, Richard

Fires and all, it was one of my best experiences ever.