Quotes About Intrigue

And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner of her mouth; he'd seen it before many times but never noted it, and now it had him mesmerized.

Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Did you really shoot JFK? I didn't think chimpanzees lived that long. Dmitri-9: Stupid, imperialist bouffant? Ugly face? That shit was asking for it!

It went okay. Kaye shifted her eyes to one side and shrugged. Rachel Browning tried to pull down my shorts. Did she succeed? Cross asked. Got them down to my curlies, Kaye said. The young men looked ready to appear shocked, should Cross be. Cross laughed. Jesus, Kaye. I never know what I'm going to hear from you. You drive my PR folks nuts.

Who are you and why are you here?' 'I'm here to kill you.' 'Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?

All human beings, Carl had learned, were fascinated with death. Only those who knew death intimately, as he did, understood its essential mystery.

You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?" "No." "Give it a look. Things weren't quite that crazy, but they were damn close.

a military base, to check out the story.

The Secret History.

lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out

Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Annie

and car. Skye's cell phone had been missing too. She wondered if there was some connection.

was Ted. He

Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage, 1994. de

her dark silhouette a part of the night itself.

in the centre of six hundred stares and whispers

Yes, Lin, you want me? Prabaker said, popping through the doorway from his eavesdropping post outside.

through his thick, black hair.

If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.

That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

I'm more sort of attracted to these worlds that are very hard to gain access to. I think those are the most interesting stories.

As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.