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Quotes About Intrigue

21. Escuela nocturna (Night School)
~ Lee Child
Are we going different places?" "Of course we are," she said. "You're looking at the crime scene and I'm going to the DGSE." I nodded. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. The French version of the CIA.
~ Lee Child
first Reacher didn't know what he was looking at.
~ Lee Child
It also made the government secretly eager to go far beyond that, at least until Edward Snowden ruined things.
~ Lee Goldberg
Why am I still surprised when it turns out there is more to the story?
~ Leif Enger
Prologue Summer, 1962 MARSH MCKITTRICK'S BUICK WAS passed through the gates of the vast Government complex outside Langley. He eased onto the turnpike, then sped toward Washington, touching his briefcase nervously and looking into the rearview mirror. Two cars filled with heavily armed guards followed closely. Sanderson Hooper beside him and Michael Nordstrom in the rear seat remained speechless.
~ Leon Uris
first no one knew exactly how to interpret
~ Leonard Mlodinow
They vanished in the same forest without a trace. Not one of them was ever found or heard from again.' 'And you suspect what?' Scully asked. 'Bigfoot maybe?' 'Not likely,' Mulder answered deadpan. 'That's a lot of flannel to choke down. Even for Bigfoot.' Scully sighed. She should have known better than to joke about Bigfoot to Mulder. Bigfoot wasn't a joke to him.
~ Les Martin
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
~ Lewis Carroll
Curiouser and curiouser!" Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
~ Lewis Carroll
said the Knave, I didn't write it and they can't prove that I did; there's no name signed at the end.
~ Lewis Carroll
It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's RATHER hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) 'Somehow it seemed to fill my head with ideas - only I don't know exactly what they are! However, SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that's clear, at any rate -
~ Lewis Carroll
She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
~ Lewis Carroll
with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.
~ Lewis Carroll
about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not
~ Lewis Carroll
earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--' 'Found what?' said the Duck. 'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course
~ Lewis Carroll
It's Yiddish. Like…Ikh hob dikh lib." Evie narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "What does that mean?" Sam smiled. "Maybe one day I'll tell you.
~ Libba Bray
Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.
~ Libba Bray
Next time we see you, you'll be on trial for some ingenious crime!" Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. "Just as long as they know my name.
~ Libba Bray
I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.
~ Libba Bray
I have met the devil, and her name is Cecily Temple
~ Libba Bray
Está celoso! Kartik está celoso y Simon me ve...apetitosa. Me siento complacida. Y desconcertada. Pero sobretodo complacida.
~ Libba Bray
Evie's eyes widened. "More interesting than dope and sorcery?
~ Libba Bray