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Quotes About Intrigue

You'll see me all right—but not very much of me," Liv muttered, watching him go. What was it about him that made her feel so strange? She ought to be outraged
~ Evangeline Anderson
One afternoon I was sitting on a veranda at a party with about six women and the information that was exchanged, commonly called gossip, was enough to run the world for months. Suddenly a hush fell over the women and I looked around and there was a man. The women slid masks over their faces, the subject changed, the man said, "What are all you girls doing out here? Come in and join the party." And the summit conference was over.
~ Eve Babitz
Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said.
~ Eve Babitz
I felt luxuriously involved in an unsolvable mystery, my favorite way to feel.
~ Eve Babitz
O woman shapely as a swan, Your gunmen tread on my dreams
~ Ezra Pound
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You let the cops in. Thy've brought in a ram to take down the front door. A white chick in an evening gown will settle the cops faster than a brother with guns.
~ Faith Hunter
Dang ninja vamp. Eli
~ Faith Hunter
Thank you, Sabina. Oh. One more thing. Tonight, a white werewolf stuck in wolf form, one who met the angel Hayyel, ran up and bit the foot of Joses Bar-Judas. Should I be worried?
~ Faith Hunter
Holy Necrophilia, Batman
~ Faith Hunter
Or they aliens like that professor with the hair say." I wasn't sure who uni lisi was talking about,
~ Faith Hunter
they knew more than he thought they possibly could? Not that he could see how. As far as he was aware, nobody knew how much he had hated Iris Carmody – or why. But if they were to find out … Would he be arrested? And if he was, how could he possibly defend himself?
~ Faith Martin
again. In front of her, PC Rodney Broadstairs looked over his shoulder at her and winked.
~ Faith Martin
You never know when the devil might come calling.
~ Farley Mowat
Tiana's head seemed to turn of its own accord, drawn to a scene playing out like the moving picture shows on the big screen at the Prytania Theatre.
~ Farrah Rochon
Curran was beautiful but perhaps a little mad.
~ Fay Weldon
involved." Decker paused. "I hate to say
~ Faye Kellerman
slightly agape, the hair pulled off the face. The woman appeared to be around forty. Even without benefit of color, he had seen enough postmortem photos to know what he was studying. "Rina
~ Faye Kellerman
Bajo la luna gitana, las cosas la están mirando y ella no puede mirarlas. Under the gypsy moon, all things are watching her and she cannot see them.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
~ Federico García-Lorca
Y he ahí la ventaja de la palabra sobre la imagen. La palabra se mete por donde quiere, va, viene, fluye, se escabulle, atraviesa paredes y ve sin que la vean, registra sin cambiar.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Seen from the angle of someone about to plunge headlong into it, the turbulent stream of Balkan history had a new fascination. The details were as confusing as ever, but certain basic characteristics, certain constantly recurring themes, seemed to run right through the bewildering succession of war and rebellion, heroism, treachery and intrigue. In these might lie the key to much that was now happening.
~ Fitzroy MacLean
Me fascina la extrema tensión eléctrica, palpable, estremecedora, que puede circular entre un hombre y una mujer que no se conocen, sin una razón concreta, así, simplemente porque se gustan y luchan por no demostrarlo. Ninguna necesidad de hablar. Es una cuestión de muecas, de gestos. Es como una adivinanza, el enigma más importante de tu vida.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder