I'm Curious. Quotes
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.
What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.
Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.
But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.
God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.
The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.
He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary
I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
Goons were the lowest sort of homunculi, only superior to zombies.
Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.
The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.
people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.
You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?
What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?
Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.
It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.
Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.
As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.
cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling pots, organs strewn on the floor being eaten by dogs.....
Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.
You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.
Only God gets the glory when revival comes to town.
It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.
compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams...
No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality.
