Quotes About Intrigue

Man found floating by the docks" - San Dan Glokta

I think while I was passed out, I dreamed about my mom's gingerbread cookies. Maybe the guy who knocked on the glass was eatin' one." "Mm," said Peace-not-War. "Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star

Vic twisted her head to peer back over her shoulder, wanting another look, and saw three other children emerging out of the alley behind her. One appeared to be holding a scythe; two of them were barefoot. Barefoot in the snow.

there, behind that hedge. Keep low. After Mindy makes the call, her

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or

Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body.

Scopique leaned in close. "Lord Scabrous." "What about him?" "If he is abducting students for his own purposes," Scopique said, "then someone needs to find out who might be next.

Gobi jammed something hard into my spine, an elbow or a dagger or the barrel of a gun, and I sat down heavily, still feeling the old man's eyes on me. They were as brown as chestnuts, searching and soulful, with the depth of those of someone who'd lost something close to him and had never quite allowed himself to get over it.

Taking a chance, he went to the bathroom, grabbed his toothbrush, and crept down the stairs to the second floor. If caught, he would say he was just going to wash up before bed. And then he heard the door between the kitchen and the living room open. "What happened to Avi?" he heard his mother ask. "He left." "But I made you both some tea.

door swung open again before Mason could ask if she was taking Dennis

When a man wants to know who lives in the apartment opposite, it's always a pretty girl," I said. "When a pretty girl wants to know, it's generally a man with field glasses. One of the most popular of New York sports.

Holly shit. For a second, he thought he was looking at Ben's special arrangement, but because Ben knew Peter's tastes, he wouldn't have arranged for this girl. Not unless he'd reached ass deep inside of Peter and pulled out some unconscious dream he hadn't realized he had. All the attributes that Peter usually sought weren't obvious in this one. In fact, she wasn't anything like the women who usually attracted his attention. Yet here he was unable to look away.

Cat Among the Pigeons

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.