Quotes About Curiosity

I began this lifelong lesson. If human beings eat a thing, and if I am not so violently repelled by my own upbringing that I cannot speak, and if it is visually clean within reason, and if I am not allergic to the offering, I will sit at the table and with all the gusto I can manufacture I will join in the feast. P.S. I call this a lifelong lesson for I have not fully learned it and I am often put to the test...

The town reacted to us as its inhabitants had reacted to all things new before our coming. It regarded us a while without curiosity but with caution, and after we were seen to be harmless (and children) it closed in around us, as a real mother embraces a stranger's child. Warmly, but not too familiarly.

I wondered what they could be laughing about. Whitefolks were so strange. Could they be talking about me?

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

I've sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land, I've seen the wonders of the world, not yet one common man.

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

Tell me something Micah, If you found a naked woman tied to your bed what would you think? That I have been a very good boy in a pass life.

What did you do?

Amazing what happens when you just ask, isn't it?

You don't want me. How could you? You know nothing about me.

Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah.

He was so incredibly beautiful, and she'd ached to be able to touch and explore him from day one.

Her questioning would

I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.

Are you a pirate?

I'm completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother's brain when she's dead so I can see what I'm in for as I age.

I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly. "I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked.

Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.

They really do look gold.How is that even possible?How can someone have golden eyes?

What do you mean, "Not to worry, she's home safe with Skiboy"? What the hell is a Skiboy?

Be like Grace: Wear large, dark glasses and a filmy scarf over your hair next time you go out in public. People will totally wonder who the mysterious beauty is, standing in line behind them at Blockbuster.

Am I the only one who recalls that Seth Turner used to think trees give off cold air because when you stand in the shade it's cooler than in the sun?

I staggered into the bathroom to change into my pj's - hey, I was pretty sure Jesse wasn't spying on me, but he still hadn't told me how he'd died, so I wasn't taking any chances. He could have been hanged, you know, for Peeping Tomism, which I believed happened occasionally a hundred and fifty years ago.

finger sandwich, if I recall." "Yeah," I say. "I'm not so sure you want one of those. I looked it up a little while ago. That's when a girl has sex with two guys at once.