Eleanor Porter Quotes

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

You've never heard of them- and you never will .

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

Now comes the mystery.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

All things lie dark in possibility.

We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

I almost think there's a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

That's for me to know, and for you to find out.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Things keep their secrets.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".