Quotes About Intrigue

You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it.

It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

I lived with a ninja once: a black guy with dreads who smelled like onions and garlic. He had a magic sword. Whenever you touched the sword, he knew about it. I don't know how.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

The White House is a strange place.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

There is no chance of my marrying Princess Margaret.

First, everyone hits on Sidharth Shukla. I've seen it. He is the complete package. But this is also a problem. The girls don't leave him alone.

I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

I really like knowing secrets, and once I do know that secret, I can keep it. But if I'm on the outside and I don't know the secret, that's a different story. I will try with all my power to get the secret out of the person who knows.

I want everything I do to be as sexy as Bridgerton,' just in different ways.

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

Beyond 'Contact,' I think there's something compelling about 'District 9.'

I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.

Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?