Quotes About Intrigue

Amalia avait l'imprévisibilité d'une écharde.

Ma non riuscivo a cancellare le frasi, mi sentivo in mente la loro sintassi bell'e pronta e ne ero spaventata, ne ero affascinata, mi faceva orrore, mi seduceva.

Por qué te ha gustado? —le preguntó Nino. —Todavía no sé si me ha gustado. —Pero te ha intrigado. —Me ha hecho pensar. [...]

Lila era de una belleza casi fea, de esas que encanta a los hombres, pero que también les da miedo.

sigue intrigando la forma en que nuestro cerebro elabora estrategias y las despliega sin revelárselas a sí mismo. Decir que se trata de actos inconscientes me parece impreciso, quizá incluso hipócrita. Yo sabía muy bien que quería a toda costa regresar enseguida a Milán, lo sabía con todo mi ser, pero no me lo decía.

D]amit das Kind den Weg durch Intrigen auch findet, schlägt sie an jeder Ecke Wegweiser in den Boden und Erika gleich mit, wenn diese nicht üben will.

She wants to ascend to the exotic, to what infatuates the sentences yet tears open the mind.

Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

I am fascinated by love, which I believe is the most powerful and mysterious force in the universe.

ANDREW: Supposing someone saw you climing in? MILO: Who? You're not overlooked. ANDREW: Who knows? A dallying couple. A passing sheep rapist.

Based on what I'd heard thus far, I could have easily and justifiably accused Jeff of stalking Francis Arsenault.

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Looking without passion is always a good plan where history is concerned. But is it really possible with regard to the career and character of Marie Antoinette?

Certainly, it is impossible to understand the course of the Powder Treason from now on unless one takes into account the magnetism of Robert Catesby.

The Rajah's handsome eunuch never guessed that she was telling him the tale of her own life.

Antonio J. Méndez

Cuando lo vi volver, alto y oscilante, las manos hundidas en los bolsillos de su gran abrigo abierto y con las solapas levantadas, entendí que había en él esa intensa sugestión de carácter que tienen siempre los portadores de una historia, como los portadores de un revólver. Pero no estoy haciendo una vana comparación literaria: él tenía una historia y guardaba un revólver.

The devils when get caught of their bad act would enact a whole drama of being against one another.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine",

left for Kenneth.

What in Urza's name

peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity"—have

I chuckled without humor and sat up in the chair. "If I'm not mistaken, you just asked me how much to kill your daughter?