If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending...

Life is always dangerous and always mysterious.

Your mother is holding your hand too tightly. You whimper and cling to her dress, because you know what will happen next. She stares at you, as if she’s forgotten how to blink. There’s one...

He felt like home.

Lucy in the sky. Without her I am the walrus, likely to lose myself in dark gibberish and fade away.” Lance Underphal, Cut-Throat Syndrome.

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig’s hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like...

We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times…and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.

The crowded city streets, the chaos of disorderly lives – nothing could keep her from wreaking love. She always wanted to let go, and I always wanted to own. She always had it coming, and...

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you,” said Chase.

Those without color—say, dressed in all black—can go about almost unnoticed. Where the rainbow is conspicuous, their darkness acts as a kind of camouflage, masculine by contrast, and allows them to watch without being watched....

The longer I looked into his eyes the more I felt that he was leading me down a road that I was determined not to follow.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even...

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns… and may the moonshadow never fall on you…

We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in...

and…and…a gun. A big one.” – Colleen O’Brien

Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Again time elapsed.

I want you, too, Hayes Cardwell, and that isn’t the beer talking.”They were so close she could see the shine of his dark eyes in the starlight. Without another word, he swept her up in...

An ocean of shimmering love exists in your heart. Tap into it today and rest in the undulating currents of the great mystery.

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint...

She came through the door the moment my beer arrived. Fortyish, salon-blonde, spray tan, fake boobs and real diamonds. Anywhere else it would be a bimbo alert, but in Florida it was just protective coloration.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of...

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

Gay Sex Three, Straight Sex Nil

Life is more than we get and possess. It is a mystery!

I started to crawl off; then I remembered my leftover pizza, and I peeled off the salami, pepperoni, and anchovies and placed them on the CD tray (whicn no one used these days with flash...

Is there a house up there? You’re not a sylph or something that really does live wild, are you?

My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray.

…because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn’t tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her

You are a force to be remembered, Dacie Mae.

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

…when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Never Give up, never surrender.

Never ask questions you don’t want the answer to.