Quotes About Enigma

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

What the soul can house, flesh cannot fathom. - The Reve of Fener - Imarak, First Destriant – MoI 657

What the soul can house, flesh cannot fathom.

he ordered, eyes lingering on the Tiste Andii.

The tall, leaning buildings to either side shrouded the narrow passage in shadow.

Some people invite awe whether they like it or not. Such people come to be very lonely. Lonely in themselves, Sha'ik

Pella started as a massive shape separated itself from behind the hanging.

To know too much is to lose the wonder of mystery. In answering every question we forget the value of not knowing.' 'There

Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest

And why would a monk slit my throat, Stillwater?' She shrugged. 'Who can figure out the mind of a monk?

The alchemist pulled his gaze back to Vorcan

How he knew no one could say. How he thought, no one could imagine. How deep and vast his love, no one could conceive.

And who is this?' Bugg asked. A shifting of vast stones—now this…this shoving aside of entire mountains. What begins here?

What is the speed of dark?

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Sweet desert rose Each of her veils, a secret promise This desert flower No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

You are very fond of this Rayojini creature. Therefore, she must be an extremely intriguing individual.

The air around them shimmered with a sense of immenence.

Her white skin fairly glowed as if lit by some inner fire. Her lips were the colour of red wine, purple in the shadows, and her eyes, like a cat's, were oblique and dark.