Quotes About Intrigue

Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

I stand in the middle of my room and debate not answering. Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device—the mysterious knock on the door—because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks .

Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite. I

Something bad was going to happen. My wife was being clever again

occurred! Amy was shot! But then I realized

Oh, that sounds like too

When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

Why else would you pull out a dead little girl's teeth?" "He took her teeth?" "All but the back part of a baby molar.

I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

I'd found it strange and kind of cute, Amy's guilty pleasures, those cheesy true-crime books I'd discovered here and there around our house. I thought maybe she was loosening up, allowing herself some beach reading. Nope. She was just studying.

There's no 'When Your Wife Goes Missing 101.

that night the light was on in Ben's room and someone was talking.

She swayed slightly as I came through the door, like a ghost debating whether to vanish. She stayed.

Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it

It was him. The boy in 'I met a boy!

I understand now why so many horror movies use that device—the mysterious knock on the door—because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

Good Lord, I hated her, but you had to admire the bitch.

Plus, there was Amma and her mysterious friendliness toward me. I hated to admit it, but I was becoming obsessed with the girl.

serve as the Find Amy Dunne

Sometimes I feel it's his personal game, that he's in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability.

Ça a toujours été le cas. Les gens voulaient toujours savoir : quel genre de femme se fait assassiner par son propre fils ?

Men love to put things in women, don't they?

I don't even want to ask," he said. "You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people.

Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.