Quotes About Discovery

Look down wells and look in the dark wet places. Look in forgetful places, and for forgotten things. Ask those that know the secrets whispered under earth and between stones.

I wonder how many species break their planets getting off them.

I felt as if I had been navigating a vast space by touch alone, groping in the darkness, and suddenly I could see.

I wanted to finish my investigation, when I was so close to answers that I could taste them.

It's not the solar system they'll claim, but eventually the universe. It might be lonely. It will be strange. Do you really want to be one of them?

A faint shudder ran through the ship when we dropped out of white space into reality.

Hey, it's my job to climb into questionable machines.

The wolf stalks him anyway, this accidental discovery, this pale-eyed, scar-faced child who was not a child, two thousand years gone by when the wolf loved him.

It was incredibly glorious, and the ship I was on was the most amazing archaeological and engineering discovery of my lifetime, and all I could feel was melancholy.

Selene smelled the old woman's flesh, acrid electronics, and consistency, and it helped drive the dangerous musk from her nostrils.

Somebody intelligent enough for space flight already lives on Grail.

I had no idea that there were that many filthy insults available to the average speaker of Galactic Standard.

You've got a key inside you, and you don't even know it.

Niyara left you information you didn't know you had, and that's one reason we wanted you. But that's not the most important one.

Kit woke in absolute blackness, with a ringing head, and tried to remember how he had gotten there and why he was lying on a dank, lumpy surface with the taste of earth on his lips.

Sooner or later, in Jack's experience, a wampyr found out everything.

Lifting her head, blinking sweat from her lashes, she studied the vines on her right side, looking for a place with fever thorns.

Murchaud moved slowly along the wall, trailing his hands over the stones nearest the dripping ceiling as if they might whisper something in his ear if properly coaxed.

It wasn't difficult to discover where the courtesan in the domino mask lived: not far from the murdered boys, which was as Sebastien would have wagered.

Perceval had never been kissed before. Oh, yes, she'd kissed Rien, but that was not such a kiss as this. This was soft and melting, Mallory's bony and elegant hand pressed to her cheek and a slick tongue lightly flicking her closed mouth. And Perceval had no idea how to react.

My flight led me through twisting companion-ways and chambers vast and tiny and in between, whose purpose was indeterminate because I did not stop to investigate.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.