Quotes About Discovery

She heard the rustle of the tarp beneath him

her backpack

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact.

find the experience of diving into a new world the most exhilarating of sensations," he said. "I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite." He

Alienation is studious; you learn more about wishes when they are not what you wish for.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. ELIOT

Never be afraid to learn from the ether...That's where knowledge lives before someone hunts it, kills it, and mounts it in a book.

There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

The monster—if there was one—never revealed itself to me again. But what I had learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually in plain sight.

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.

stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.

Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.

How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.

It is now. But a trip like this? You will find something to fill it with. A truth of your own, that you discover on your own.

don't mistake a new place for a new you.

Lie. Lie to everyone until you know the truth.

He stands up, slowly, and puts his hands on the zipper of his jeans, where I notice there's a bulge that looks like someone stuck a cucumber in his pants. That can be his...thing, can it? He undoes the button then his fly and then slides his jeans down. He's wearing those tight boxer-briefs things, like that guy in the Calvin Klein commercial, and I realize, it's definitely not a cucumber.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

Total commitment, I said. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.