Quotes About Curiosity

Mommy. Mommy. Mommy, you know how Daffodil has a pet rabbit? Do you think I could have a pet dragon?" "NO, Ivy.

Instead of trying to impress other dragons with opulence, they do it with mystery.

Why aren't they moving?" Cricket asked. She hesitated at a large tree root, inspected the shadows around it, then gingerly stepped over it. "Stupid question. We obviously don't know," Nettle muttered. "Never seen snakes act like this.

He is not a 'super-stealth' or a 'fighting evil' kind of dragon. He is a 'but do the bad guys know about pandas because then I bet they wouldn't be evil anymore' kind of dragon." "Well, but," Sky protested, "I mean … pandas! Have you SEEN pandas?

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It occurred to her that this was a rather morbid train of thought to be having about a new friend.

be like seeing ghosts or scavengers

scrolls. And then we'll figure out for ourselves if we're going

I will find out." Violet said. "I am excellent at thing-finding-out." "But won't you get in trouble?" Ivy asked anxiously. "My parents yell at me when I try to find things out." "Then I will yell BACK," said Daffodil. That is what I am excellent at.

They were two SandWings, swooping lower as they got closer. For an uneasy moment, Glory thought they must have seen her. But they whooshed past without even glancing down, and she realized they were aiming at something beyond and behind her.

Logan, did your shirt just . . . move?" "Don't worry about it," he said. "I brought backup.

I also wouldn't have eaten that thing this morning that looked like a slug and turned out to be a slug.

Aha," Rollan said. "I knew that boll weevil in my soup last night looked suspicious.

Who cares about all that ancient history?

You could make it see the future or answer any question you ask it or show you any dragon on the continent or literally ANYTHING more interesting than the weather.

Queen Coral tried flashing some more questions at Tsunami, but finally she flapped her wings and pointed to the surface. Tsunami pressed the egg to her chest and followed her mother, up and up and up through winding tunnels and cavernous palace rooms, through emerald-studded coral and pearl-laced curtains of golden sea grass. They swam to the top of the palace, where a guard stood watch over a view for miles underwater.

I believe this," said Jerboa, "is our first visitor from the lost continent.

Smeeg smog smockeefee,

Ask dumb questions.

Oh, what is that bird?' 'It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have told you their name twice, nay, three times.

Did your mathematical studies ever reach to the quadratic equation, Stephen?' 'They did not reach to the far end of the multiplication table.

should very much like to see your excrement.' 'You shall, my dear sir, you shall.

In fact he was quite pleased with it: one of the few female corpses he had seen with that curious quasicalcification of the palmar aponeuroses – fresh, too – but since it was only the hands that interested him at the moment, would either of his colleagues choose to go snacks?

often an unfinished picture is all the more interesting for the bare canvas.