Sharon Bolton Quotes

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

The unknown is always interesting.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.