Quotes About Intrigue

To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

He liked her not knowing. I could tell. He liked her not knowing. Her ignorance woke a pleasure that melted on his tongue, like a lick of toffee.

I had the feeling that if she could have moved all around me, been in front and behind and on both sides at once, that was what she would do. She would close me off, she would peer into me until she found whatever she wanted, and got it rearranged.

He realized that he knew hardly anything about her – what kind of person she really was or what kind of secrets she could have. He could not even estimate his own value to her. He only knew that he had some, and it wasn't the usual.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

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She was never thought of as a pretty girl. People might say she looked interesting, mysterious, older than her years and therefore intriguing, but she was considered approaching beautiful only when she looked sad.

Lady Wingfield had confided to a friend that the Queen was a loose woman.

If you could forget that they were two heretics, and that Lord Robert had very likely murdered his wife, they were perfect for each other.

She saw Henry look hungrily into Anne's face as they met in the dance. And in that moment she knew.

I want to suspend my disbelief. I want to see magic happen. I want to believe that there's a world just beneath the surface of our world where anything can happen, where magic is possible and dreams come true.

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet.- Hale

Cel mai atractiv lucru din lume este fata pe care, instinctiv, o acoperim cu o panza. Cand ajunge si mai atragatoare, fascinanta chiar, o punem la doi metri sub pamant.

When the man was dead an examination disclosed the unmistakable marks of an animal's fangs deeply sunken into the jugular vein. But there was no animal.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

The most civilized place in the world," murmured Father Yarvi. "Though that mostly means folk prefer to stab each other in the back than in the front.

Never take eggs from a metal-eyed man.

Good treachery takes effort.

The door beside him opened sharply and Glokta snapped his head round, doing his best to hide a grimace as his neck bones crunched. Lord Ingelstad stood

What's his story?' asked Yarvi. 'I don't know his name. Nothing, we all call him. When I was first brought to the South Wind he pulled an oar. One night, off the coast of Gettland, he tried to escape. Somehow he got free of his chain and stole a knife. He killed three guards and cut another's knee so he never walked again, and he gave our captain that scar before she and Trigg put a stop to him.' Yarvi blinked at the shambling scrubber. 'All that with a knife?' 'And not a large one.

?le jej z oczu patrzy - wyszepta?a, kiedy zyska?a pewno??, ?e nikt ich nie us?yszy. - Owszem. - I ksi??? si? jej s?ucha. - Owszem. - I trafi?a tu przed nami. - Owszem. [...] Ojciec Yarvi spojrza? na ni? z kwa?n? min?. - A widzisz? Jednak znasz si? na dyplomacji.

They're in there? Morveer and his little echo?