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Quotes About Discovery

In the end, I think I wasn't defending anything at all. I'm an editor—an artist—and I like to make connections; I am paid to make connections. And so I wonder. Did I walk down those stairs because I was curious? Because a question had been asked (Who owned the feet that landed on my basement floor?) and I, the editor, wanted to discover the answer?
~ Sherman Alexie
The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." Wow.
~ Sherman Alexie
The world even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.
~ Sherman Alexie
I like to go to garage sales with my mom, so maybe my name should be OLD TOYS ARE AWESOME.
~ Sherman Alexie
Then one detail caught my attention. Time (of birth), 5:57 A.M. Wow! I really was born! I wasn't an alien who was dropped down into my adoptive parents' arms. I was a real baby who experienced a real birth from a real mother at a real time of day. For me, that tid-bit of information was like a meal to a starving woman.
~ Sherrie Eldridge
Have you ever noticed that salvation, much like your car keys, is usually found where and when you least expect it? (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Wow, that was fun. Any place else you want to take me while we're here? Maybe there's a darker corner of hell than that hall of flesh-hungry demons, huh? (Sin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Redemption is never where you expect to find it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life isn't a puzzle to be solved. It's an adventure to be savored.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I didn't know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn't know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don't give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Simple. Atlantis can't be found. He scoffed at her. You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
St. Ash – who knew? (Gallagher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I found my happy place the minute I saw you
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Descobri a minha estrela. Ela é bela e graciosa. Elegante e divina. O meu riso no inverno. Ela é corajosa e forte. Arrojada e tentadora. Diferente de qualquer outra no universo e não posso tocar-lhe. Nem me atrevo a tentar.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She'd seen the kindness in him that he hid from the world, and she'd glimpsed some of the pain that he kept to himself. While she knew she should hate him, every day they were together, she discovered another part of his soul, and it wasn't frightening. It was strangely beautiful.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And remember, sometimes our dreams appear where and when we least expect it. Sometimes, just sometimes, you can even find them waiting in your own bed when you open your eyes. (Esther)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. Are you an illegal alien?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh goody! I can't wait! Jayne? Can we go get slaughtered by my brother I never knew I still had? Can we please!" -Hadrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
~ Cynthia Kenyon
My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
~ D. J. MacHale
Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.
~ Daniel Handler
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
~ Dante Alighieri
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned
~ Dave Eggers