Quotes About Intrigue

Everything does not have to be given away for free. But even a little unnecessary mystery goes a long way.

Renfield, my ass. What I had on my hands was a Van Helsing.

really hate threesomes when one of the participants is dead.

She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385)

Era un asunto embrollado: el español era Topete, a quien en el cantón conocíamos como «Eligio», para no tener que decirle Eligio de Puta.

Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.

Entre nobles caracteres la amistad crece despacio y prospera mejor cuando arraiga en el reconocimiento de los méritos recíprocos; entre hombres vulgares crece inmotivadamente, pero permanece raquítica, fundándose a menudo en la complicidad del vicio o de la intriga.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

My name is Slither.

Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight.

I opened the car door; then, just to be thorough, I got out and knelt in front of the bumper. And found it, magnetically affixed to the back of the license plate. I pulled it off: a miniature GPS tracking device. A box about three inches by one containing a GPS receiver and a cellular modem. That little toy could transmit a vehicle's location over a cell-phone network.

on Dekens' face. "Possibly.

The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors

We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors.

Durak," he said, spitting it. When

people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

Venedig war ein Krebsgeschwür, das gezielt seine eigenen Metastasen plante.

through the crack

What happened?" Sagewhisker demanded. "The rats happened," Scorchwind growled.

Two identical heads rose from the heap of fur. Firestar's ears pricked with curiosity. He had never seen cats like these before. Their slender bodies were cream-colored, but their legs, tails, ears, and muzzles were brown, and they had the most brilliant blue eyes he had ever seen.

Who are you, and what have you done with Tigerstar?" Needleclaw muttered into Rootspring's ear.

Redtail groaned to himself, picturing the smug glow in the other tom's amber eyes. What Tigerclaw had said sounded reasonable, but Redtail didn't trust that he was really planning only to mark ThunderClan's borders. Before Redtail could turn away, Tigerclaw pushed his way out past the lichen that hung over the entrance to Bluestar's den. He stopped when he saw Redtail, and Redtail felt hot beneath his fur, embarrassed at being caught eavesdropping