Quotes About Exploration

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

How marvelous to leave the real world with all its cares behind and step into another, more vivid, more vital, alive with fascinating characters whose lives you alone control.

After all, when one goes out into the city with the sole goal of capturing the city, only to discover that the city is nothing but a restless shifting of scaffolding, then one must refrain from going out.

Helping to match people to the book that would change their life, or make them fall in love, or get over a love affair gone wrong. And for the children, she could show them where to dive into a crocodile-infested river, or fly through the stars, or open the door of a wardrobe...

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Huckle honey

Poetry is good for people who are in strange lands," said Marek. "Yes

But doing something new is so hard. And a few things can help.

die Zeit scheint ihr zur Verfügung zu stehen wie ein Haus, in dem sie mal dieses, mal jenes Zimmer betreten kann.

Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar

Her body is a city. Her heart is a large shady square, her fingers pedestrians, her hair the light of streetlamps, her knees two rows of buildings. She tries to give people footpaths. She tries to open up her cheeks and her towers. She didn't know streets hurt so much, not that there were so many streets in her to begin with. She wants to take her body on a stroll, out of her body, but she doesn't know where the key is.

when he slipped out of his mother's womb, he was already filled with interior spaces that didn't belong to him, and he can't just look inside to inspect his own interior.

It's fun to think of the what-if. Scary, but fun. It's like, I thought this door was closed before, but here it is open just the tiniest crack. What if?

It's good for you to try new things

Pack light and figure the rest out as you go

You could do with a little less baking and a little more living life.

Allow yourself to get a little lost. By this I mean, get caught up in it, do things you wouldn't normally do — let it be an adventure. But not so lost that you can't find your way.

That's the whole point of an adventure. Pack light and figure the rest out as you go.

It was so much better driving with the windows down. It felt like you were actually going somewhere.

We're on an adventure, she yells. We don't need cell phones for an adventure.

the girl with the maps and the travel books and the plans.

It's a whole new world out there, Daddy." "Right

You just have to be willing to work; they'll teach you. I could also work at a surfing school in New Zealand, or learn how to make wine in Italy. Basically, I could go anywhere. Doesn't that sound amazing?

Because she is Margot, the girl with the maps and the travel books and the plans. Of course she would leave us one day.