Quotes About Intrigue

the fantastical and damned Iram City of the Columns reappeared in some of the stories of the twentieth-century horror writer H. P. Lovecraft

and looked at Loren Page, who had taken on a strange look.

and Jess was looking through his spyglass. He scanned the wooded hillsides around the little

His eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside. The eyes, the voice, the face, the silver hair, the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen.

there's a creature inside of you that I'm not good enough to bring out, not strong enough to reach. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. You frighten me, even though you're gentle with me. If I didn't fight to control myself with you, I feel like I might lose my center and never get back.

the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Gregory Rasputin, his bloodstream filled with poison, his body punctured by bullets, had died by drowning.

A poem is an empty house. [Stranger, you must enter, then knock.]

This is the greatest pirate story ever," Bowden said. "And no one knows about it.

What, they had asked Meyer, did he do for a living? "Business," he replied. "What kind of business?" came the question. "My business," came his answer, and Lansky absolutely declined to elaborate further.

Everything, as Mr. Yul Brynner used to tell us six nights a week and Saturday matinees, is a puzzlement.

Espionage is an effort to find windows into men's souls.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

"What is the Black Spot, Captain?"… "That's a summons, mate."

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

The closer she looked at those windows, the lovelier and more irresistible the house became.

equal flaps, one draping itself over the front of the face, the

Robert Masello

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....

Mysteries make one dream of unendurable bewitchments, they have the fragrance of something quite, quite unspeakably beautiful.

particularly

she had two phones.