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Quotes About Curiosity

His voice held wonder and worry when he spoke at last.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Whiskey pricked up his ears, arching his neck, knowing himself displayed.
~ Elizabeth Bear
If it was any of my business, somebody would tell me about it eventually.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She glanced over her shoulder, pinning the hapless patrolman on a needle-pointed gaze, wondering which of her notories occupied his attention.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Coward, he thought again, meeting Eremei Fyodorovich's laughter-sweet eyes. He wondered briefly if Ian's would be as changeable as Elaine's or if they were green like his own.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Seeker could have peered inside Morgan's cottage, but some perversity moved her to play fair.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I shrugged, and wondered if Pearl could see in that simple gesture the pain of losing an enforced religion because somebody gave you the switch and you were curious enough to turn it off.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She stroked her chin with a thumb and a forefinger. No wonder people were staring; the effect was distracting.
~ Elizabeth Bear
What is it that thou seekest, Elf-Knight? Thou hast not made that plain to me, but thou must have some use for me, or thou wouldst not have been so kind, so long.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I'm not a religious person, though I dabbled for a while.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Lifting her head, blinking sweat from her lashes, she studied the vines on her right side, looking for a place with fever thorns.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Murchaud moved slowly along the wall, trailing his hands over the stones nearest the dripping ceiling as if they might whisper something in his ear if properly coaxed.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Slowly, slowly, she turned to look over her shoulder, the fall of her hair kissing the high bone of her cheek.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In reality, there's nothing quite like staring into the most enormous black hole in the galaxy, then flying down its gullet like a gnat with attitude.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Muire had never expected the Technomancer, as people were beginning to call her, to come to her door.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Comest thou to a snake for sympathy, Sir Poet?" "I come to a snake for information. What may be equally foolish.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My flight led me through twisting companion-ways and chambers vast and tiny and in between, whose purpose was indeterminate because I did not stop to investigate.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
The day was meant for what ineffable creature we must have missed?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
and looked and looked our infant sight away.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play / in this strangest of theatres? / What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life / in our bodies, we are determined to rush / to see the sun the other way around?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
No seas muy tímido ni quisquilloso sobre tus acciones. Toda la vida es un experimento. Mientras más experimentos hagas, mejor".
~ Elizabeth Blackburn