Quotes About Discovery

I'm so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

He thought he had discovered one of life's great truths (and one he could have done without): the only thing harder than saying goodbye to yourself, a pound at a time, was saying goodbye to your friends.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not ever. Doing that's about the most dangerous thing a person can do, I think, because a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else, even dying.

I was lost in the dark and you found me. I was hot - so hot - and you gave me ice.

Go, then, there are other worlds than these.' 

no knowledge obtained without risk

Wandering's the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.

The road, and the mysteries that lie along it, calls out to none as it calls to the young.

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.

I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture!

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.

Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.

We go to seek a better world. May you find one, as well.

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

For readers, one of life's most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels.

don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need...

Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy.

Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you're flying into . . . the Roland Zone!

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world.

A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.

Once upon a bye, before your grandfather's grandfather was born, on the edge of an unexplored wilderness called the Endless Forest, there lived a boy named Tim