Quotes About Intrigue

Le jeu misérable des passions est si simple qu'un adolescent le possède à sa première intrigue : Raymond n'avait eu besoin d'aucun conseil pour se résoudre « à la laisser cuire dans son jus ».

What's a little maiming and treachery between friends?

There was a reek in her nose, a slick dark green smell of water that was old enough to be clever and dangerous.

Once again Toll-by-Night had burst out of its captivity, like a monstrous jack from an innocent-looking box. And this time Mosca was a part of it.

And you may comfort yourself with the thought that you have been the caltrop under her satin shoe every step of the way. You misdirected the Romantic Facilitator she had hired, you turned up in her own house and reported her plans to her father and when she was on the brink of snatching the ransom you careered in from stage left dressed as a pantomime horse and threw everything into disorder. And then, just when she was probably working her way towards claiming a second ransom, you rescued her.

Grab their lines! Stop that coffeehouse!" someone was shouting. "There are fugitives and cell-breakers aboard!

Her moment came. Nobody was looking. She sidled quickly across the deck and lost herself among the crates that clustered at the base of the boat's shuddering, discoloured funnel. The air tasted of salt and guilt, and she felt alive.

We're in a nest of secrets here. Don't let down your guard.

She is the key to this mystery, a key that I will turn, by hook or by crook.

Follow that coffeehouse.

Some say the favor of the Grand Steward is double-edged. They are wrong. It is all edge, and everybody knows it, and still all the courtiers spend their every waking moment clutching at it and bleeding.

the murderess of time.

She had a murder to find, and an island to frighten. Frightened people sometimes made mistakes, and it was a good day to be a ghost.

The point is that a good logline, in addition to pulling you in, has to offer the promise of more.

In this blizzard of wonderment, Mike Kami asked me a simple and penetrating question: "What's in the box?" When

He had this great curiosity. If there was a car wreck and Walter saw it, it would be like the first car wreck he ever saw in his life.

I feared that it was only a matter of time before the kitty would stumble onto the secret messages that other strays had left

He was hiding there in the dark when Dewey Phillips called the Presley house

But just as a beautiful fish will occasionally sparkle in the waters of a polluted river that runs through a stretch of factories, so in the flow of old paper the spine of a rare book will occasionally shine forth, and if for a moment I turn away, dazzled, I always turn back in time to rescue it.

Dziwny pies ?a?cuchowy!"- pomy?la? Wokulski.

The Lives of Others.

To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.

People are more twisted than people think.

Roll gently onto your back for me, and know my teeth are made of feathers.