Quotes About Discovery

Our clients find me charming. And I find out things Maman and my uncles never could …" "Because people think you're an imbecile." "Being … how do you say, underestimated, that is never a bad thing.

Today I found I'm not afraid of the unknown. Today I discovered that the unknown loved me, and that I loved it back.

I never imagined the unknown could be so beautiful.

Books are like paper windows into other worlds, aren't they, Uncle Stephen?" she asked

A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

I guess I figured out I was different a little at a time. Since I never had trouble thinking or remembering, it actually sort of surprised me that I couldn't do stuff. And it made me angry.

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

Perhaps I will someday. When there is nothing left in my own world that pleases me.' 'Then you will never visit, for you are a girl who will always find pleasure in something.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

Thus, the benefit of travel and open-mindedness: one can find one's own tribe.

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing....

But there was a lot of happiness discovering so many small things in unexpected places.

What is home? I wanted to ask. Haven't I already come home?

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

wanted that kind of life even though I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

Happily we run away from even the brightest and best things in our lives, because we are curious about what else is out there. And what else is out there? Just more of the same, whichever way you look. Whichever way you turn, it's the same life you're facing. It's the same life that's facing you.

Perhaps our vision of how life should be is actually no fun at all, and neglects to include the exciting people we have yet to meet, who make the stupid ways life seems to happen, happy after all.

I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it.

And the killer knows you and doesn't know how much you've figured out.