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Quotes About Intrigue

I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
~ Marcia Gay Harden
It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.
~ Daley Thompson
When something actually shocks me, that's when you know it's a great topic.
~ Adam Conover
Honestly, you could beat me, torture me - just don't bore me.
~ Rob Riggle
Religious or biblical can sometimes be a little soft, but 'A.D.' doesn't shy away from the violence of the time, the political intrigue. The story is really about the resurrection of faith, which is how the disciples went about keeping the word of Christ. So, they found all kinds of trouble and problems and torture and persecution.
~ Juan Pablo Di Pace
Keep smiling... it makes people wonder what you're up to.
~ Sean Keogh
I am drawn allways toward you, Your delicate and distant light, Face which I have never seen.
~ Sean Russell
Crowheart, as always, appeared
~ Sean Russell
It had more darkness in it than any daylight could unpick.
~ Sebastian Barry
Manchmal war sie sich nicht sicher, wer die größere Macke hatte: der Autor, der sich diesen kranken Mist ausdachte, oder sie, die sie sogar Geld dafür bezahlte, um es sich mit Axtmördern und Psychopathen am Pool gemütlich machen zu können.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
Ginzo inclined his head and, without uttering a single word, returned to his room in the main house. For a while he just stood there thinking, but eventually he uttered a single sentence: "That man's lying." With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI. He addressed it to his own wife, then set out for the K—town post office.
~ Seishi Yokomizo
Who's James Bond?" Zabulon inquired.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Espiar a otro es enrarecerlo. Y cuanto más intrascendente es el registro de sus acciones, más raro resulta.
~ Sergio Bizzio
ACCLAIM FOR "DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW
~ Shamim Sarif
I won't trouble you long," said Maricara. "No doubt you have all manner of pressing plans to consider. Spies to engage. Betrayals to enact. That sort of thing." "Only on Sundays," Kim replied. "It's Tuesday. We're discussing stealing sweetmeats from small children today.
~ Shana Abé
Does it look to you like she's got a 'my precioussss' thing going on with something in that pocket?" I asked him.
~ Shanna Swendson
We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.
~ Shannon Donnelly
It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder.
~ Shannon Hale
So she tried all the magical passwords she could think of. "Abracadabra. Open sesame. Sim salabim. Alakazam. Hocus pocus. Voilà. Please.
~ Shannon Hale
How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, and my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, what does she want? What can I do for her? She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? There was a heavy pause, then Enna burst out laughing. Finn smiled at his boots.
~ Shannon Hale
1 Pardon this highly unusual footnote, but I must break the Narrator's "fourth wall" to explain that this story will be "tricksy" in more than one way. Kitty Cheshire does not like being narrated. She seems to be aware of my watching her, and she resists. At times her thoughts and feelings squirm away from my inspection. I shall do my best, however, to narrate a completely true story about Ever After's most elusive character.
~ Shannon Hale
The girls were offered bone cups filled with wiggly white stuff
~ Shannon Hale
Jane looked at everything, smiling at the amusement park novelty of it all. She looked at Mr. Nobley. He was beaming at her. At last. "You are stunning," he said, and every inch of him seemed to swear that it was true. "Oh," she said. He kissed her gloved fingers. He was still smiling. There was something different about him tonight, and she couldn't place what it was.
~ Shannon Hale
Nothing is quite right, or everything would be quite boring.
~ Shannon Hale