The Curiosity Quotes

“And what is life but a little row in a small boat, every moment leaving what we know, every stroke unable to see where we are headed?”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“After all, what is love but the desire to know another person as thoroughly and deeply as possible? Every quirk and passion, each response to the changes of time, every possible inch of skin? Also perhaps to be ourselves known, with all our flaws, yet somehow miraculously still be desired?”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“There is no way to bring back what has been lost, but maybe telling a tale of beauty is a form of mourning.”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“Kate, I imagine that very few people reach the end of their lives and regret having spent too many hours relaxing beside the ocean.”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“I heard obscenities everywhere, as though the world were populated entirely by longshoremen... Had no one told them that coarseness lacks dignity?”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“Our challenge is to live with all the sincerity that is in our hearts, and hope that those who doubt will come to see the truth.”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“There is no way to bring back what is lost, but maybe telling a tale of beauty is a form of mourning.”
― Stephen Kiernan, The Curiosity

“My literary references seem right, but no one around me is well read enough to correct any errors.”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“Even now, the angling of the light into this room. The curl of the curtain as it falls from a slackening breeze. To call these things symphonies would be untrue. They are but two of the hundred thousand simultaneous extravagances known as existence.”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“destination. Two bump each other, then veer away. Another jumps clear out of the microscope’s field of vision. “Plateau,” you tell them. The woman from the Post puts one”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity

“a lifetime’s worth of narratives happening at once—the television. At first I was amazed. Soon I found it predictable, however, and dulling to the senses. There were only two subjects, death and money, both taken to violent excess. The”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Curiosity