Quotes About Intrigue

As it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.

Anonymous: Early Miscellaneous

Werner thinks of her, whether he wishes to or not. Girl with a cane, girl in a gray dress, girl made of mist. That air of otherworldliness in the snarls of her hair and the fearlessness of her step. She takes up residence inside him, a living doppelgänger to face down the dead Viennese girl who haunts him every night.

Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you.

The other boys crane their necks. Dr. Hauptmann's lips are pink and his eyelids are improbably thin. As though he is watching Werner even when he blinks. He says, "Make them all.

That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing it. Wars might have been fought over it.

Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.

That Dr. Hauptmann might have ties so far up—that the telephone on his desk connects him with men a hundred miles away who could probably wag a finger and send a dozen Messerschmitts streaming up from an airfield to strafe some city—intoxicates Werner. We live in exceptional times.

Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;

Look closely and the picturesque inevitably cracks apart and becomes more interesting.

How does a plague start inside a sealed disc that has had no contact with any other living thing for almost six and a half decades?

Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.

What," he asked into the silence, "is her name?

Writing on March 15, 44 B.C., she reported that Julius Caesar had been assassinated

A conspiracy was formed, led by former enemies in the civil war, leading members of the regime, and even close friends.

His first task was to prevent Brutus and Cassius from taking over Greece

Men pressed around Caesar in a tight scrum as each tried to stab him;

Hirtius rode into Antony's camp and was struck down and killed fighting around the commander's tent.

and wanted to replace Tiberius with Agrippa, and that Livia acted to defeat him.

and he captured and eventually executed the official incoming governor, Mark Antony's brother Gaius.

Mark Antony took the same line.

In fact, his silent foreknowledge of the conspiracy suggests that he was not without sympathy with them

From Antony's point of view, the arrival of Caesar's heir was an annoying distraction.