Quotes About Intrigue

The serpent'll have you. He likes tender flesh. I like to watch.

There was something repellant about the face before her, yet also seductive.

She has a hot, dark air about her. It's frustrated virginity, you know.

She told herself she wanted to know what was in his mind. She told herself she was intrigued by him because of his relationship with Valraven. But in her heart she knew the truth: there was power in him that he could show her, that she could learn about, power that Ellony could never have. Also, he was very attractive.

Your love of mystery is really quite tiresome, you know!

To this point, I had not realised how deadly Mallory could be, and even believed her hand was not behind these events. I realised I must be wrong. Some of Mallory's creatures were among the delegations to Mewt.

I had an inkling there was a razor-sharp intellect, a shrewd individual within the fluff of Livvy's persona. There was another side to Sacramante, something which I'd caught an echo of as a girl, something that intrigued and seduced the unwary. Liviana was an intiate of its mysteries, but I knew I'd never learn its secrets from her.

Was there pleasure to be found in the jaws of the fox? That would make a good first line, she thought, and repeated it over and over in her head so as not to forget it.

I shrugged, slightly unnerved by the feverish joy in the other girls' eyes.

The women around her, many of whom she knew, were not showing their everyday faces. They did know something, she could sense it. They hid their secret faces behind a screen, but now it was drawn back.

I get bored easily. I wanted to keep you guessing.

Scandal, you know, in a small community like this, breeds all manner of intrigue.

She felt he knew where Owen was, and was savouring the knowledge; something she didn't have.

I admire survivors. It is why I want Khaster Leckery too." "You are optimistic," Tayven said. "He was never much of a survivor. Why are you so interested in him?" Maycarpe leaned forward in his seat. "Don't you know why? Didn't you sense it yourself?" Tayven was silent for a moment. "I doubt you and I sense the same things." Maycarpe made an expansive gesture. "Find him, Tayven.

Shiny, undulating forms wave between his legs, caressed his flanks, but neither bit nor constricted his limbs.

Why am I attracted to magic? Write down your responses. You might find you write a poem, or even something that later you will be able to use in a ritual. No-one else will read it, so you can be as honest as you like. Date the page. It is the beginning of a mgical diary.

Everyone wanted to know more lurid tales about the Wraethru. Only I knew he was one of them: his hands were never still, and I could tell half the things he said were lies.

There are schemes within schemes within schemes.

He had a secret life of which she knew nothing.

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

And where did you spring from, Oskan? I'd already had enough shocks without you leaping out of the shadows like a skinny ghost!

Porfiry," Sarah said. "I'll heat you something." "Girls," said Rostnikov. "Go into the other room and pretend you are doing homework. You can listen from there.

A Holly Barker Novel

Dino shook his head. "Wherever you go, people drop dead, and women take off their underwear. I don't know how you do either of those things.