Quotes About Curiosity

She looked at Mad Rogan. What did you do? Mad Rogan opened his mouth. She turned to me. What did he do? He got hit by a car, I said. The woman turned to me. What kind of car was it? An armored Escalade, I said. Well, at least it was a nice car. She turned to Mad Rogan. Who would want to ruin their nice car by hitting you with it?

And that's why we don't poke random shit we find in the woods with a stick," Keelan said.

When you find freaky shit in the scary woods, you don't poke it with a stick. It can explode in your face. What do you do instead?

Where did you find this charmer ? Linus asked me. In an abandoned mall. He followed me home.

You ask the Consort. The Consort knows everything." "Oh," Hakeem said. Keelan pivoted to me. "Consort, please tell us what this is." "I have no idea.

Next to him Elara stood, her teeth clenched. Okay. First things first. He would win this battle and then he would figure out what the hell she was and what he had gotten himself and his people into.

Your ignorance is staggering. I sometimes wonder how you survived to sixteen years of age. I'm curious, did you live most of them in Bubble Wrap?

Hey, here is the corpse of something big, scary, and magic that used to eat people when it was alive. I think I'll go over and poke it with a stick. That would be awesome. I sighed. Teenagers. Some things even post-Shift Atlanta couldn't change.

I guess Ancient Greeks didn't really have a lot of access to porn so it must've been fun to imagine that every tree hid a meek girl with big boobies.

Sometimes I ask to sneak a closer look, skip to the final chapter of the book

Some day, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who LOOKS like a monster.

Had he wanted to get her out of the apartment that night for some reason?

One can be too ingenious in trying to search out the truth. Sometimes one must simply respect its veiled face. Of course this is a love story.

Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.

I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.

A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to 'weirdies' of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.

It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.

Christ, I loathe women. But I can't get going on the other tack either. And you needn't blush and look coy, I never fancied you. I know what you got up to with Fritzie Eitel! No—but I'd have had old Wilfred if he'd asked me. What did old Wilfred do for sex? No one ever knew. Perhaps he didn't have any, and if so good on him.

he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)

He did not read. This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading.

But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.

Curiously watched by people in neighbouring cars, she abandoned herself to sobbing as the taxi crawled slowly through the north London traffic.

It had been his fate not to be interested in anything except everything.

I can browse indefinitely in a stationer's shop, indeed there is hardly anything in a good stationer's which I do not like and want.