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Quotes About Discovery

You just had to know where to look.
~ Sarah Dessen
But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn"t ever want to be found.
~ Sarah Dessen
You need a third option, he said. Yeah. I guess i do. He nodded, absorbing this. Well, he said,For what it's worth, it's been my experience that they don't appear at first. You kind of have to look a little more closely. And when does that happen? He shugged. When you're ready to see them, I guess.
~ Sarah Dessen
And now she was found, no longer lost. Like a bag I'd given up for good suddenly reappearing in the middle of the night on my doorstep, packed for a journey I'd long ago forgotten. It was odd, considering I'd gotten accustomed to her being nowhere and anywhere, to finally know where my mother was. An exact location, pinpointed. Like she'd crossed over from my imagination, where I'd created a million different lives for her, back into this one.
~ Sarah Dessen
This life was fleeting, and I was still searching for the way I wanted to spend it that would make me happy, full, okay again. I didn't know what it was, not yet. But something told me I wouldn't find it here.
~ Sarah Dessen
So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.
~ Sarah Dessen
But you never know what you can do until you try, and if you're lucky, what you love will always be waiting for you.
~ Sarah Dessen
More like a door being opened a tiny crack to let a sliver of light in. It wasn't enough to see clearly by, but from then on, we would never be fully in the dark again.
~ Sarah Dessen
For me, however, it was a mix of the two, this constant push and pull. I loved it here. But I'd been in that circle and star for my entire life, and I so wanted to know what it would feel like to claim another distant spot as my own, if only for a little while. Someday.
~ Sarah Dessen
I was here, too. But all my life I felt like an observer than an active participant. It was safer there but could be lonely too, or so I was now realizing. Maybe there was a middle ground between living too hard and living at all. Maybe, here, I was finding it.
~ Sarah Dessen
it's a lot easier to be lost than found.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's about the courage to go for what you want, not just what you think you need. Sometimes, we don't even know what that is.
~ Sarah Dessen
Loce is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's kind of impressive...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.
~ Sarah Dessen
But I was sure of something, too: it's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching, and rarely discovered—so many locks, not enough keys.
~ Sarah Dessen
Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you'll always be pleasantly surprised.
~ Sarah Dessen
You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget.
~ Sarah Dessen
Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...
~ Sarah Dessen
One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.
~ Sarah Dessen Saint Anything
When you fall in love, it is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping.
~ Sarah Kay
You told me once that I was just the first draft, and I'm inclined to believe you, but you came with a lot more pieces to assemble and Mom and Dad never got the manual.
~ Sarah Kay
he ducked his head around the corner he saw that he
~ Sarah Mayberry
We found a puppy. In the … um … backyard. Yes! The backyard! And then we … went to see if any of our neighbors lost a puppy. That's why we didn't hear you calling earlier. We were outside.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Sebastian Boondoggle's upside-down magic allowed him to see invisible things, like radio waves and farts.
~ Sarah Mlynowski