Quotes About Intrigue

Charlaine Harris

A peremptory knock on the front door made me jump.

she was ethereally lovely, with a kind of deadly edge. the deadly edge was what a person shouldn't forget.

No one will tell you." "Like who?" "Anyone. It's the damnedest thing. I really want to know what I'm up against.

Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.

Ladies seem very intrigued by a guy who is ultra confident and acts like he doesn't need you.

'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.

I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.

I really do have this thing for middle-aged politicians.

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.

I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

Die Menge ist ja ein Phänomen, das Menschenmengenphänomen, das mich schon immer beschäftigt hat.

Where readers of Murdoch can begin a new novel with a quiet confidence, opening a Burgess book is an exercise in anxiety: what the devil is he up to this time?

An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit.

YaÅŸayan bir s?r ölü bir rezaletten daha az ilgi çekici deÄŸildi.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.