Quotes About Intrigue

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

the southern countries in which d'Artagnan had hitherto

D'Artagnan guardava meravigliato quell'uomo che metteva il potere illimitato che era nelle sue mani, potere che il re gli aveva affidato, al servizio dei suoi amori.

d'Anne d'Autriche

D'Artagnan wondered at the fragile and unknown threads from which the fates of nations and the lives of men are sometimes hung.

Alexandre Dumas

Presteign took out a silver-mounted slab of crystal and handed it to Olivia. She touched it with her fingertip; a black dot appeared. She moved her finger and the dot elongated into a line.

He pointed to a door and disappeared with a 'pop'. The door revealed a long flight of stairs. As Foyle and Robin started up the stairs, Dr Orel appeared above them. 'This way, please. Oh . . . one moment.' He disappeared and appeared again behind them. 'You forgot to close the door.

Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

When a star reaches for you, it is difficult to look away.

No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.

Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it.

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...

Coralie felt something pierce through her, as if she were a fish on a hook, unable to break free. She felt a tie to the stranger, drawn to his every movement.

Oh, you're moonlight, he'd said. Harder to see, but there for those who look.

If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria.

If the Wolfman had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about

She feels a little chill of expectation down her spine. There is someone, somewhere, who knows she's alive. "Somebody writes to me, Mom," Shelby tries to explain. "They think they know me. Maybe they read about me in the paper.

Evil always did that, appeared when you least expect it.

Alice Kimberly

Il y avait derrière cette voix toute une histoire de nuits sombres, quelque chose d'exquis, quelque chose de dangereux.

Mary Keane watched her daughter and felt as well the punch and turn of the baby not yet born and saw the similarity of the mystery of them both—the baby unseen, moving an elbow or a foot, the means to an end all its own, unfathomable; her daughter with the unseen life playing like reflected light over her face, her lips moving in a conversation forever unheard.