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Quotes About Curiosity

Lord love a duck.
~ Carolyn Brown
What's in your backpack, Bess?" Nancy Drew asked
~ Carolyn Keene
George's eyes lit up as she considered that there might be a mystery to solve.
~ Carolyn Keene
As Nancy started back to the driveway she caught sight of a small leather-covered book lying a few feet from the doghouse. Eagerly Nancy snatched it up.
~ Carolyn Keene
That mysterious girl again!" Nancy gasped
~ Carolyn Keene
Give me a hint," George begged. "I can hardly wait!
~ Carolyn Keene
The young sleuth smiled to herself. "I wish that phantom boat would appear! I'd like to know what it looks like.
~ Carolyn Keene
Kendall's eyes lit up. "You have no idea, Noreen. He
~ Carolyn Keene
No matter how many mysteries Nancy had solved, her friends never ceased to be amazed each time.
~ Carolyn Keene
The young sleuth smiled. Although she was glad it was all over, she could not help but look forward to another mystery to solve.
~ Carolyn Keene
Nancy and Ned
~ Carolyn Keene
Nancy zipped across the street and into a photocopy shop. "Hi. I want you to blow something up," she said to the clerk. "This is a copy shop, not a terrorist headquarters," said the young man behind the counter. Then he laughed with his entire thin body. "I never get tired of that joke," he said.
~ Carolyn Keene
Suddenly she saw a flickering light ahead, near the grove. Curious, she drew closer. A veiled figure with black hair and wearing a glowing white gown confronted her. The next instant Helen was struck on the back of her head and fell unconscious
~ Carolyn Keene
We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
~ Carolyn Kizer
how do you like children?" "Wrapped up in twine and tied to a tree
~ Carolyn Lampman
Kitty Meets the Band
~ Carrie Vaughn
People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.
~ Carson McCullers
It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.
~ Carson McCullers
Cuando se casó con el capitán era virgen. Cuatro noches después de su boda seguía siendo virgen, y a la quinta noche su estado cambió apenas lo suficiente para dejarla intrigada. El resto sería difícil de contar.
~ Carson McCullers
It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.
~ Carson McCullers
We know hardly anything about anything.
~ Catherine Aird
I can't help it, when the moon is out I must come out too...I am not mad.
~ Catherine Cookson
When you don't know enough about life to know what you might have missed out on, your imagination plays wicked tricks on you.
~ Cathie Pelletier
the sort of kid who steered his bicycle around snakes crossing the road
~ Cathie Pelletier