Consider this a fair warning.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held the only evidence of his identity in his hand and in one motion...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a...

The root cause of the reset remains a mystery, but I guess the occasional odd glitch is to be expected from a vehicle that’s been on Mars for almost 600 sols.

…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre

It’s not compromise if it doesn’t sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. … The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and...

Ah well that I can’t tell you.” Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. “Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I’ll keep my...

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

The things you don’t know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple

Did you see the octopus?” Someone shouted after the dive. Yes, I thought, but who among us knows what it was doing? What else was THERE, just then? WHY?

The basements of the churches I’ve loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a...

We’ve worn him out, son. Keep on him. He’s ours for the catchin’.

Sheriff Fox was running his fingers through his thin hair. In a few short years, he’d look bald as a peeled apple. The Snoop sisters and their sidekick, the town’s bag lady no less, had...

Vivant sans souffle,Froid comme la mort,Jamais assoiffé, toujours buvant,En cotte de mailles, jamais cliquetant.(Le poisson)

What’s the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don’t get any deader.

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild,...

I could go crazy on a night like tonightWhen summer’s beginning to give up her fightAnd every thought’s a possiblilityAnd the voices are heard but nothing is seenWhy do you spend this time with meMaybe...

Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed.

She was sad and lost and alone in the dark,” Cecil said. “She needed somebody to hold her.””And you think she’s going to get tired of that?””You did,” Cecil said. “You shut me right out.””It...

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn’t mean that they’re on your journey.

Ak, kjærligheten den gjør menneskehjærtet til en sophave, en frodig og uforskammet have hvori står hemmelighetsfuld og fræk sop.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, “To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a...

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

I only swing for one girl. But if she’s into a certain kind of kink, who am I to deny her such pleasantries?”~ Luke Wagner

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.

There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep at night.

Kalau kau mau melukai orang, kau harus siap menanggung luka yang lebih besar lagi. Kalau tidak, kau lebih rendah dari serangga. Bahkan tidak layak jadi makanan ikan teri.

But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.

A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington’s Adventures in Detection: 1)”Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you’ve been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?””Remember your private...

You are not who you think you are.

Aurora, you’re a child, live like one, don’t act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors,...

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.

The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, one morning or one evening, looked at the world and felt the presence of something greater. They...

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

The Templars’ mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That’s why so many people venerate them.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and...

a little sour and tough to swallow.

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence —...

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

I’m determined.” (Violet to Doc)