Quotes About Intrigue

She is the darkness.

A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.

Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too? Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. Natalie's diary has better security than this. He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

Noah stepped forward for a closer look. "If it's a girl," he said finally, "then what's that?" And we could all see exactly what he was pointing at.

The Janus, the Tomas, the Ekaterina, and the Lucian!

stranger stares back at me.

What's that like? 1) Picture being jailer to Harry Houdini; 2) multiply by five hundred.

Bear's eyes narrow. "Exactly how much do you remember about the Graybeard Motel?" "Nothing," I reply honestly. He grins. "If you want to go there when you don't have to, you didn't just scramble your brains. You knocked them out completely

and a thick mustache calmly gestured for them to get in. Amy

They did surgery on us, probably when we were babies! They cut us open and put some kind of chip inside

And then the cold muzzle of a dart gun at the back of her neck erased all other brain activity.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

She could not get enough of the sights and the sounds the rest of us take for granted. The Gingerbread Man on Broadway particularly intrigued her as he ran by, coat-tails streaming in the wind, pockets bulging with gingerbread, his only food. No one knows who he is or where he lives because he never speaks, just runs, eats gingerbread, sips water at the public pumps.

At times, she felt that she was involved in an elaborate peasant dance, which had not been entirely explained to her. Now the hand is held; now the heel is stamped; now the head turns; and then the kiss.

Dr. Bogart was about to tell me more when William de la Touche Clancey sat down next to me with an insolent crash (do I resemble a country youth because I am small?)

So who are you?" Jiming asked. "Other than a boy who brings wine to toads at night.

I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.

I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.

There was something about a fête which drew Arthur Rowe irresistibly

La había escuchado con asombro y con cierta inquietud. Por primera vez advertía los peligros que me acechaban. Me sentí como arrastrado tras ella hacia una absurda empresa de caballeros andantes como Sancho Panza tras Don Quijote, sólo que en busca de lo que ella llamaba diversión, en vez de hidalguía.

The ambiguity was that attraction.

It wouldn't have done to cable the details of his true career, that before he died he had been responsible for at least fifty deaths

It would be better if I called you,' she told me, and caution, I thought, caution, how well she knows how to conduct an affair like this, and I remembered again the stair that always - 'always' was the phrase she had used -squeaked.