Quotes About Curiosity

Her curiosity would be the end of them both. "Chess. They are playing chess," he said, his voice oddly husky. "Chess? I think you meant chest. Yes, he has his hand on her chest," she murmured.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

El saber fue, por mucho tiempo, nuestra mayor y más compartida pasión.

Where's the sun?" he asked me once. "Behind the clouds." "Is it always there? Even when it's cloudy?" "Always." "Could we see it if we climbed to the top of that poplar?" "No." "And if we were on a minaret?" "No. The clouds are above the minaret." "And if a hole was made in the clouds?" Indeed, why don't people make holes in clouds for boys who love the sun?

sve ima svoju suprotnu stranu i ljudski duh, živ i uznemiren poželi da prevrne svaku stvar da joj vidi nali?je pitaju?i se da to možda nije lice

MALAYA ENJOYED a good mystery. It wasn't the triumph of solving that compelled her. It was the sifting through—the discovering of new layers and textures, unthought-of twists and turns that thrilled her. One of the greatest mysteries in her life was her mother.

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

I skim through time and space at the speed of thought. The unknown is my prey, I bring it to earth in a single exquisite bound.

Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things.

because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper

Looking at him was like staring at a prism; you saw something different from every angle. The one definite was that you couldn't stop looking at him.

Dear, dear," Ivan said, eyebrow raised. "So this is what Kansas looks like.

Maybe googling people kills them … You keep looking them up to see where they are, until one day you look them up and they're dead.

It could make you slightly psychotic if you really focused on the idea that girls had holes under their clothes. Holes that suggested, in the absence they pointed out, that they could be filled, and that you could do the filling.

Those moments of strangeness. Life is full of them.

I want to not think so much about what I want, and what I missed out on. I want to think about other things—other people, in other places even. I am so tired of all the little ironic in-jokes, and reciting lines from TV shows and movies and books. Everything from the . . . circumscribed world. I want an uncircumscribed world.

The underaged had not been here before when Ethan was given his tour;

But maybe I cared too, because sometimes I found myself wondering about those things. I just didn't show it. It was high school; you didn't show things.

This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer. How does this man, a man like this, like any of them, come to walk at night and stand in a girl's backyard, and then, smoking and looking up, suddenly feel himself helpless to bher bright magic?

Once, a few weeks ago, she'd heard a girl's voice in there and wondered if it was porn on the computer until she could tell it wasn't. She heard the voice say Eli's name. E-liii. She'd turned her music as loud as she could, held her hands to her ears, even sang to herself, eyes clamped shut. She hoped he heard her fling off her Ked so hard it hit the wall. She hoped he remembered she was here.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.