"I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions."

Curiosity, Question, Strength, Determination

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"I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions."

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"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Curiosity, Courage, Question, Willingness, Know

"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Curiosity, Doubt, Wonder, Possibility, Uncertainty

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Curiosity, Business, Bees, Labor

"If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Curiosity, Sex, Youth, Experience

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Curiosity, Grace, Vanity, Woman

"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Curiosity, Discovery, World, Life

"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Curiosity, Education, Knowledge, Question, Learning

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"Half-truths only added up to a whole lie."

Practice

"How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel? 'Maybe you don't have to move it, Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. 'Maybe you have to climb it."

Morality

"Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins."

Fear

"This time should have been no different. But it was."

Belief

"Why are you so weird?'Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch.'At least what I do is considered an art form.'Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch."

Universe

"I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one."

Philosophy

"Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder."

Art

"You wanna go build some shelves with me?"

Simplicity

"What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?"

Honor

"Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind."

Dreams