Lara

“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

“I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.”
― Susan Sontag

“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla