Quote by Mathias Énard

“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or…

— Erik Larson

“And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonally open hostility, when the whole city finally seemed alive and…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Perhaps the habit of intrigue is catching--in the air or the walls. Like secret passages, only in the mind.”

— Susan Kenney

“We are travelers, constantly moving forward, and looking back. We have no choice but to try for our insatiable curiosity, for our fear of…

— Mass Effect

“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

— André Gide

“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.”

— C.Wright Mills

“Like a real traveller, he looks for whatever he has in common with the people he encounters, to a point where the sense of…

— Mateo Cabello

“I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored --…

— Veronica Roth

“The room spun with a thousand threads of words and thoughts and senses invisibly interweaving a cloak around us, embracing us with a warmth…

— Nancy Moser

“I have long considered the creative impulse to be a visit-a thing of grace, perhaps. Not commanded, owned, so much as awaited, prepared for.…

— Loreena McKennitt

“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”

— Peter Behrens

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

— Shirley Hazzard