Quotes About Curiosity

Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.

If you don't furnish your brain with what everyone knows, then it will furnish itself with what no one else knows!

poking around in this dump, as it would be

Curiosity in humans is to be punished—it leads to disaster.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you do not understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Welcome to Neverland," Peter said, as if this were supposed to be a big surprise. Darla took her hand away from his. "It's smaller than I thought it would be," she said. This time she looked right at him.

Not to know is bad, but not to wish to know is worse.

The storyteller in me asks: what if? And when I try to answer that, a story begins

Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap cheat sheet.

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

He squinted at me. What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

Joe I said. It's Stephanie. Does this involve death? Not yet. Does this involve sex? Not yet. I can't imagine why else you'd be calling me.

Aren't you something, Grandma said. I never saw a midget up close. Little person, Briggs said. And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.

Bob had a dog buscuit stuck to his head. How does he always get food stuck to him? I asked Morelli. I don't know, Morelli said. It's a Bob mystery. I think stuff falls out of his mouth and he rolls in it. I'm not sure. -Morelli And Stephanie

I was standing with my back to the door, and I saw Connie's eyes go wide. "Be still my heart," Lula said, looking past me, through the window to the sidewalk. I figured they were looking at either Johnny Depp or Ranger. My money was on Ranger.

Is that your granny?" Ranger wanted to know. "Yup. She was checking to make sure Moogey was here." "You've got a helluva gene pool, babe.

The third message was from my mother. 'Why me?' she said. 'Why do I have to have a daughter who finds dead bodies? Where did I go wrong? Emily Beeber's daughter never finds dead bodies. Joanne Melanowski's daughter never finds dead bodies. Why me!' News travels fast in the Burg.

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Now it's my turn," Riley said. "What's your first name? Where'd you grow up? Who's your favorite Batman?

Rule three, never underestimate nosy neighbors. Mrs. Rupp called and wanted to know why you were standing in the alley, looking into her windows, and she was wondering if she should call the police. I explained it was most likely *my* windows you were looking in and reminded her that *I* was the police, so she needn't bother with another phone call.

Here's the thing," Riley said. "I'm not really into diabolical possibilities. I'm more into logical explanations.

Oscar Wilde said it's never the question that's indiscreet, only the answers.

Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

uh-oh, Ranger said. you been reading those Nancy Drew books again?