logo

Quotes About Intrigue

It seemed necessary for him to lift one shoulder in order to put his hand into his jacket pocket.
~ Saul Bellow
A strange heart. I myself can't account for it.
~ Saul Bellow
The same as a cigarette? asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her. The same, but very, very gentle.
~ Sax Rohmer
I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished, Locke whispered. There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?
~ Scott Lynch
That would be just dandy. All we'd have to do is sit back and wait for them to wipe each other out. But that doesn't explain the message written in blood. That's the mark of a seriously deranged mind. An intelligent mind, but one without a conscience.
~ Scott Nicholson
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
~ Scott Westerfeld
that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Alek coughed politely, If I promise to avoid funny business, could you perhaps remove this knife from my throat?
~ Scott Westerfeld
A word, Sir Jamie. Quickly!" You may speak freely, Alwyn," Jamie sighed. "You are always making too mcuh of minor incidents." You're no' going to believe it, Sir Jamie," Alwyn gasped. "But I swear every male Fergusson alive is outside our gate.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Fancy finding you here," he said jauntily. Nothing about it was fanciful, and she suspected he might have followed her. Why else would he be there? "You've taken up knitting, have you?" she countered as she walked to the yarn section of the shop. "No,I've taken up finding you alone. Nice of you to accommodate me." His answer pleased her more than she could say, but she warned him, "I'm not alone." "For the moment you are.
~ Johanna Lindsey
He wondered if her spy had stumbled upon his last night. When did he start thinking like his mother?
~ Johanna Lindsey
It didn't even help that I had a man watching the house.I suppose he can be forgiven for not thinking Mary Pearson could be a threat." "I knew about him," Rebecca replied. "I found him hiding in the garden this morning. I took him some cookies." Rupert laughed. "Did you? How embarrassing for him, but that was probably my mother's spy.Mine would have been better hidden!
~ Johanna Lindsey
definitely scandalous and
~ Johanna Lindsey
What ball?" Selena gasped, truly surprised. He was not foxed, and he was not being blasé. The infuriating man really had no idea what she was talking about.
~ Johanna Lindsey
in the heart of the city? Mr. Gordon Creighton
~ John A. Keel
How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.
~ John Ashbery
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
~ John Barth
Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.
~ John Bellairs
and so, I went to work on a brazen head that was going to tell me how to encircle England with a wall of brass, to keep out marauding Danes and other riffraff.
~ John Bellairs
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
~ John Buchan
By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.
~ John Buchan
Seriously--you've got TWENTY thingamabobs AND a snarfblat!
~ John Bytheway
You think you know someone your whole life, and he turns out to be a German-gypsy interdimensional dark elf spy who can cloud men's minds. Go figure.
~ John C. Wright
Nuda plus uwaga = zaczyna by? ciekawie.
~ John Cage