Quotes About Discovery

It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.

In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.

What will I do if I find myself with a heart? Lose it constantly, I imagine.

Is it only in childhood that we are capable of taking in the whole world? What does it do to us that we briefly have that privilege? And, then, what harm , when the fund of novelty in human experience runs dry?

How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. ? Gregory Maguire

Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.

To grow a melody? You can't grow a melody on purpose," she said, and slyly added, "you have to plant an accidental.

So Oxford, at its inception a huddle of theologicians and divines, grew into a city of dreams, and much good may come of that. Little surprise that Middle-earth and Narnia were both discovered here.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Was it an accident I saw that...or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer in homecomings.

I'm learning there's never a way home, only a way forward,' said Rain.

He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.

Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

Horrors, said Elphaba. It was her first word, and it was greeted with silence. Even the moon, the lambent bowl among the trees, seemed to pause. Horrors? Elphaba said again, looking around. Though her mouth was serious, her eyes glowed; she had realized her own accomplishment. She was nearly two years old. The big sharp teeth in her mouth could not keep her words locked inside anymore. Horrors, she tried in a whisper. Horrors.

I know Oz, now, she said, and in the carving of the lintel she found that common ideogram, a Z circled with an O. Usually letters don't hide inside each other, she told Glinda firmly. No, that's true. In Oz, I suppose, something is always hiding...

Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them.

The person who would become a lifelong reader should stumble upon very rich stuff first, early, and often. It lived within, a most agreeable kind of haunting.

And yet what now is hidden in shadows below may become more welcome to you in the long run.

Mind your way forward and find your way back

The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142)

I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now— as in the haunting play The Blue Bird, where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home.