(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.

Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with ‘Are you stupid?’ and the conversation would still make sense.

Mystery, why so attractive to me?You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.

The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect,” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.

That’s the mystery of it. We intend to get to the bottom of it.

The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in the realm of metaphysics and begged an answer to why he...

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?

Do you want to run away by dying? Or to live and accept the challenge? – Ciel Phantomhive

The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back into displace as the breeze fluttered by. In the firelight, it was golden...

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

Life is volatile.

I’m comfortable with the unknown — that’s the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them...

This land, although not my native land,Will be remembered forever.And the sea’s lightly iced,Unsalty water.The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk,The air is heady, like wine,And the rosy body of the pinesIs naked...

This is about as distasteful a loss as I can remember, and it’s baffling. After Sunday’s game, I thought a good positive push was going to take place. It’s the mystery of coaching.

I paid a lot of money once to find it out,” Raphael said.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.

Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don’t, and you better have it, or it’s like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like...

On westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white against the black coats of the marching gentlefold and fuller than the moon...

That’s part of the mystery.

Do you know the story?No, Finn, but I have a feeling you’re going to tell me.

Nice sweater Bob, does it come in mens?

She’d always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.

Saat ini, Anda adalah kain itu. Apa yang Anda cari tidak bisa ditemukan karena keterbatasan Anda sendiri. Bukan karena ia tidak ada.

A scent. Your mother’s shampoo.

Often I have found myself gazing up at clouds – yesterday’s seas and tomorrow’s streams – to think of them as floating on an ultraviolet sea, beyond which is the infinity of space that presents...

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses – with eyes which cannot see the infinitely small or the infinitely great, nor anything too close or...

The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasn’t, as the leaves whipped and the lightning fell away in a slow strobe effect across the expanse of...

There’s no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to...

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

No sheep may leave the flock,” he said to anyone who would listen, “unless he comes back again.

They have to know, for we know , that reincarnation is real.

She turned back to the door fishing her key out of her purse. Once the key was in the lock, the door flew open revealing darkness. All she had time for was a squeak before...

Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn’t Lasker. This guy-‘She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say...

The waitress came by with a pot of black coffee. She was a smallish woman, about forty, still had some of her looks left, but she had a hardness to her face. Money and bad...

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

If you can get to be you, why can’t I get to be me?

I’m a big animal. Fine motor skills are not me forte.

Growing up in a family of gamblers, daredevils and practical jokers, I’ve learned a lot about timing and its first cousin, dumb luck, concepts I was introduced to while still in the womb.

There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!

…when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That’s the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some...

I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree....

The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she’d picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.

I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with ‘In the Valley of Elah.’ I said, ‘Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.’ And then, two thirds of the way through, I...

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.