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Quotes About Intrigue

Oog aim vack
~ Garth Nix
Pause friend, be smelled and enter!...
~ Garth Nix
he would get all intro on me, turn down the community access on his äppärät so that I wouldn't know where the fuck his mind was, and
~ Gary Shteyngart
the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: "It's the ghost!
~ Gaston Leroux
Hullo… the wall is a looking-glass!
~ Gaston Leroux
We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.
~ Gaston Leroux
I moved closer to him, attracted, fascinated: in the midst of such passion, death itself became appealing...
~ Gaston Leroux
For several months, there had been nothing discussed at the Opera but this ghost in dress-clothes who stalked about the building, from top to bottom
~ Gaston Leroux
There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!
~ Gaston Leroux
When I opened my eyes, we were still surrounded by darkness. A lantern, standing on the ground, showed a bubbling well. The water splashing from the well disappeared, almost at once, under the floor on which I was lying, with my head on the knee of the man in the black cloak and the black mask. He was bathing my temples and his hands smelt of death. I tried to push them away and asked, 'Who are you? Where is the voice?' His only answer was a sigh.
~ Gaston Leroux
And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should. As for Raoul, he saw nothing either; for, when he had Christine in front of him, nothing interested him that happened behind. Chapter
~ Gaston Leroux
of a gentleman in dress-clothes, who had suddenly stood before them in the passage, without their knowing where he came from. He seemed to have come straight through
~ Gaston Leroux
Preguntó el señor Mifroid, mientras limpiaba meticulosamente los cristales de su binóculo, ya que el comisario era míope, como les suele ocurrir a los mejores ojos del mundo.
~ Gaston Leroux
THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED.
~ Gaston Leroux
I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose, and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!
~ Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera did exist. After all, these are no ordinary bones.
~ Gaston Leroux
To his great astonishment, the door opened and Christine Daae appeared, wrapped in furs, with her face hidden in a lace veil, alone. She closed the door behind her, but Raoul observed that she did not lock it.
~ Gaston Leroux
Gaston Leroux
~ négligemment
There was an appalling silence between the three of them: the two who spoke and the shadow that listened, behind them.
~ Gaston Leroux
It's how I figured out what you're actually facing.  But before I prove I'm actually useful here, why don't you tell me why the man who used it has to die?
~ Gene Doucette
Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.
~ Gene Wolfe
Each picture in the room beyond contained a book. Sometimes they were many, or prominent; some I had to study for some time before I saw the corner of a binding thrusting from the pocket of a woman's skirt or realized that some strangely wrought spool held words spun like thread.
~ Gene Wolfe
So far I've only read a page but I like that page a lot.
~ Geoff Dyer
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
~ George Bernard Shaw