Quotes About Intrigue

She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.

He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest chemists in the world—there must be something detectibly different in her inner workings for him to respond so dramatically, as if he'd been given a drug for which science had yet to find a name. But more than anything, he wanted to—

Well, I always enjoy a case more once witnesses start quoting Shakespeare, don't you?

Charlotte Holmes. I thought I might see you here." The voice belonged to Lord Ingram, but slightly raspy, as if he were under the weather?or recovering from a night of hard drinking. She turned around slowly. "Hullo, Ash." A complicated pleasure, this man.

Hasn't it always been like this?' asked Charlotte. 'Haven't they always been games that empires play with one another?' 'Maybe,' answered Lord Ingram. 'But it can take a queen-and-country sort like me a while to work that out.

And suddenly she resembled not so much a bland dish of pudding as the surface of a well-known, yet never explored lake, and he, standing on the banks, had just seen a movement underwater, an enigmatic shadow that disappeared so quickly he wasn't sure he hadn't imagined the whole thing.

Interest sparked in Jess's eyes. "Then

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

Perplexed, I tried to avert his gaze and the piercing effect it had, not only on my own eyes but on my entire body. What is happening?

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.

Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.

A Conspiracy is like an Iceberg........there is a lot more to it than what meets the eye

All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want

Z morderstwem jest jak z ?yciem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne.

wet with it. In that same moment the room beyond the doorway was

And ... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.

Every wall was covered with shelves, packed tightly with books on every subject under the sun, and a few best unmentioned in polite company.

faced some strange

Everywhere he went the shadows had teeth, and quite often an agenda.