Quotes About Intrigue

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

he did not suffer bullet wounds.

Every man is a moon and has a [dark] side which he turns toward nobody; you have to slip around behind if you want to see it. -Mark Twain From introduction to The Amateur.

Who, or why, or which, or what,Is the Akond of Swat?

Continuity in any affair creates curiosity and attention.

Forget the privacy; we all are the spy and spying on each other in every way on every subject.

ignoble or rebellious, what does it matter? I'm more interested

Who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who Knows its depth?

His eyes made her think of water at night—full of mysteries and hints, revealing little.

He possessed ugliness the way a few rare souls possess beauty, an ugliness that fascinated

Meira að segja Geir Vídalín, okkar góði og meinlausi biskup sem hallmælti engum, sagði um "consul Jón Parker" að þar færi afar "óviðfelldinn og fégjarn" maður. Þegar Jörgen var farinn sást James Savignac æ oftar í fylgd með Guðrúnu Johnsen og

People often just want to look at me or touch me - some even want to kiss me.

Now.' He said, 'I have to ask you three question. How old are you? Are you in love? And what in God's name are you doing here?

What lies on the edge of perception, from where anything might come moving in?

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.

In the crush men used the women to play silent games with themselves. One stared ironically at a dark-haired girl to see if she would lower her gaze. One, with his eyes, caught a bit of lace between two buttons of a blouse, or harpooned a strap. Others passed the time looking out the window into cars for a glimpse of an uncovered leg, the play of muscles as a foot pushed break or clutch, a hand absentmindedly scratching the inside of a thigh.

Un maschio, a parte i momenti pazzi in cui lo ami e ti entra dentro, resta sempre fuori. Perciò, dopo, quando non lo ami più, ti dà fastidio anche solo pensare che una volta l'hai voluto. Io sono piaciuta a lui, lui è piaciuto a me, fine. A me succede molte volte al giorno che qualcuno mi piaccia. A te no? Dura un poco, poi passa. Solo il bambino resta, è una parte di te; il padre invece era un estraneo e torna un estraneo.