Quotes About Enigma

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

The Luggage said nothing, but louder this time.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it. The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.

The Universe is a lot more complicated than it looks from the outside.

The night was as black as the inside of a cat.

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter...

Silverfish: He disappeared a few years ago. Disappeared? How? said Cuddy. We think, said Silverfish, leaning closer, that he found a way of making himself invisible. Really? Because, said Silverfish, nodding conspiratorially, no-one has seen him.

It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess.

Wizards, like cats, can see Death.

Goo-goo, g'joob!

Jennie looked at him curiously. She scarcely understood what she was thinking, but this man drew her. If she had realized in what way she would have fled his presence then and there.

There's no explaining a good woman, he said to himself.

What shakes the eye but the invisible?

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.

She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.

He was an enigma, John Pritkin: a mad scientist with gun calluses and old scars and even more secrets than me.

the Lock Ness monster

She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.