Jeannette Walls Quotes

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Time discovers truth.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Light itself is a revelation.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.