Quotes About Exploration

Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, and Steven Erikson, then

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not necessarily mean it's the best way, or the correct way, or the healthiest way for your horse, or your relationship with your horse, or your life.

Joe Clifford Faust

if you were to start investing your attention and energy into the unknown, your body would then be able to follow your mind into the unknown—a new experience in your future.

My immune system gets stronger each day. I lead with courage in my life. I am an unlimited genius. I am always aware of the power within me and all around me. I believe in myself. I embrace the unknown.

What the BLEEP Do We Know!?

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

So here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.

Oh, now don't act like the idea is so terrible. When you come down to it, what could be more romantic than a few hours of scrambling around in a cold, dripping hole known for occasionally flooding and drowning people?

No. I don't think so. It isn't about whether I die. It's about figuring out where. And I've decided. I'm going to see how high I can go. I want to see if it's true. If the sky opens up at the top.

I know all about bridges like that one. I know all about roads that can only be found with the mind. One of them is how I find my way to Christmasland. There is the Night Road, and the train tracks to Orphanhenge, and the doors to Mid-World, and the old trail to the Tree House of the Mind, and then there is Victoria's wonderful covered bridge.

Una buena novela para ella tenía que ser un viaje emocional y filosófico y además enseñarle vocabulario nuevo.

That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about.

Harper's face was buried in Mr. Truffle's fur and with each inhalation she smelled the last nine months of his secret cat life: must, dust, grave dirt, basements and tall grass, beach and drainpipe, Dumpster and dandelions. The

Lake Pontchartrain, huh?

and the doors to Mid-World

The path to her old self is overgrown, lost in the briars. But her sleeping mind . . . you thingg, Michael, the sleeping mind has paths of its own? Trails the waking self has never walked?

They made their unsteady way up onto damp, firm sand, through the cool wet.

The road will make me better. The road always does.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.   I

Science Fiction stories are the dazzling flares we launch into the darkness, to catch a glimpse of the country before us and show us our way.