Quotes About Curiosity

You are happy and you are bored. You need to find a new pastime.

The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.

Weren't you even curious what it was? There's a world of people and things, if you can manage to stop being a misanthrope for a second.

You had things you wanted to know. But she is so hung up on the morality of it that she's useless.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again. He

Who the hell are you?' A.J. asks the baby.

The best way to get to Margarettown is to 'try' to get lost.

Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting." The world seemed filled with interesting books to read, interesting plays and movies to see, interesting games to play, interesting food to taste, and interesting people to have sex with and sometimes even to fall in love with. To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.

Ah, but Sadie Green was a gamer! In a game, if a sign warns you not to open a certain door, you will definitely open that door. If it doesn't work out, you can always go back to the save point and start again. Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the

And she always wants to read the same book. And it's, like, the crappiest board book. The Monster at the End of This Book?

Sam considered his French fries. "Are there other worlds?

A.J. several Google searches to determine bathing protocol: appropriate temperature bath water two-year-old; can a two-year-old use grown-up shampoo?; how does a father go about cleaning a two-year-old girl's private parts without being a pervert?; how high to fill tub—toddler; how to prevent a two-year-old from accidentally drowning in tub; general rules for bath safety, and so on.

Why are you crying?" "I was reading.

The store is seven Mayas wide and twelve Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than twenty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

What's a Forever 21?" Ismay laughs at him. "How do you not know this? Wasn't it ever referenced in one of those YA novels you're always reading?" "Young adult fiction isn't like that.

Bah! Books are for nerds.

A.J. piensa en qué parecido es todo el género policíaco. ¿Por qué un libro es diferente de cualquier otro? Son diferentes, concluye A.J., porque son. Tenemos que ver muchos por dentro. Tenemos que creer. Aceptamos llevarnos alguna decepción para que, de vez en cuando, algo nos entusiasme de verdad.

But have you read any short stories?" A.J. asked. "Maybe in school. Fairy tales. Or, um, The Red Pony? I think I was supposed to read The Red Pony." "That is a novella," A.J. said.

Dile a un niño que no le gusta leer y te creerá.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that

The wallpaper has a bumpy, swirling pattern, and it is pleasing to rub her face against it. She will read the word damask in a book one day and think, Yes, of course that's what it's called. In contrast, the word wainscoting will come as a huge disappointment.

Perché piangi?" "Stavo leggendo.

Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.

that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.