Quotes About Discovery

My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past..

To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen

It requires discipline, to drown oneself, but I have discipline in spades. My body may never be discovered, or it may resurface weeks, months, later--eroded to the point that my death can't be time-stamped--and I will provide a last bit of evidence to make sure Nick is marched to the padded cross, the prison table where he'll be pumped with poison and die.

Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.

As we move forward with the investigation, we can only hope that Amy comes back to us. Her story must continue. The world is ready for a new chapter.

He is learning to love me unconditionally, under all my conditions. I think we are finally on our way to happiness. I have finally figured it out.

Little Libby Day just discovered her angle. Call it survival instinct, or call it what it was: greed.

Don't be discouraged—every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it

It was him. The boy in 'I met a boy!

We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time.

He teased things out in me that I didn't know existed: a lightness, a humor, an ease. It was as if he hollowed me out and filled me with feathers.

Sometimes you need to get lost for a little.

It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again.

Su cerebro es tan complejo que nunca trabaja únicamente a un nivel. Es como un yacimiento arqueológico interminable: cuando crees que has alcanzado la última capa y dejas caer el pico por última vez, descubres que hay otra mina entera debajo. Con un laberinto de túneles y pozas sin fondo.

It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting.

Want to guess what comes up when I Google "Woman discovers"? It's not "new galaxy." It's "a body in her trunk" or the unthinkable in her attic." According to my computer search, other big discoveries by women include "her co-worker is her birth mom," "a Renaissance painting in her kitchen," and "her new home was once a meth lab." Hey, at least that one contains the word "lab.

Tutto troppo semplice, come avremmo capito molti anni dopo. Lentamente, e con fatica, avremmo scoperto che il mondo non era esattamente a due colori, ma che in mezzo ci poteva stare un'infinità di sfumature.

Copernicus not only moved the Earth but also set in motion the minds of men

Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before.

La poesía no debe ser un arma, debe ser un abrazo, un invento, un descubrir a los demás lo que les pasa por dentro, eso, un descubrimiento, un aliento, un aditamento, un estremecimiento. La poesía debe ser obligatoria.

Empecé a escribir poemas cuando descubrí que se podía querer a una persona que no era de tu familia, menuda sorpresa me llevé.

We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.