Quotes About Intrigue

Lord Megobari," a man announced. I turned. At the far entrance, between two djigits, Hugh d'Ambray strode into the hall.

They are coming here for the arbitration, and they will probably try to murder each other the moment they walk through the door." Caldenia's eyes widened. "Do you really think so? This is absolutely marvelous!" She would think so, wouldn't she?

The door in the far wall slid open and Arland strode through it. She saw his handsome face, framed with a mane of blond hair. His blue eyes found her. He grinned. Her heart skipped a beat. Damn it.

He was charming and funny and a bit scary, which was always a draw in my book.

Yes, yes. Stalk all you want. There was no way he would be discussing any kind of fraternization in front of his mother and stepfather. She'd outmaneuvered him. For some odd reason, it made her feel ridiculously accomplished.

Sometimes I ask to sneak a closer look, skip to the final chapter of the book

Fanny zag ik niet meer. We waren overeengekomen dat ze pas bij me zou komen op de dag voor de aanslag, voor de laatste instructies, want zij moest de bommen klaarmaken en ze aan me geven. De kameraad die ik nog één keer ontmoette, gaf me het precieze tijdstip op: kwart voor twaalf 's avonds. Het was ons onmogelijk de schouwburg binnen te komen, want daar mocht je alleen in op uitnodiging; we moesten dus wachten onder de zuilengalerij.

Had he wanted to get her out of the apartment that night for some reason?

Charmaine was Miss Vamp, provocative and come-hithery in floor-length white silk cut clear to her navel; Dave and Shep were provoked and went thither.

So much for 'tannis root'. Devil's Fungus.

Sex comes to most of us with a twist.

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.

solitary sinister men with terrible secrets — of whom Clement now and forever after must be one.

It occurred to me as scandalous that Palmer and Antonia, after the scene in which I had taken part in the drawing-room, should have gone out to the opera. Antonia ought to have been waiting for me to come back. I resented this indifference to the tempo of my own drama.

Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other.

It's all someone else's secret.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

There is nothing straight about you; no motive that hasn't another behind it; no statement that hasn't three meanings.

three ships lost in the same sector in the same year can't be accident, and

But with the creature from worlds beyond space sitting in the midst of it

it would be harmful to humanity to have the explanation known, and that's why we can only guess

Many times have I longed to broil a diplomat over a slow fire," the Aga Kaga snarled. "Tonight will see it come to pass!" "I've seen it done often at staff meetings," said Retief. "It seems to have no permanent effect.

Harlan gazed at Noÿs and his thoughts wound tightly about her. What would she

It was not a large office, but it was quite spy-proof and quite undetectably so. Spy-beams trained upon it received neither a suspicious silence nor an even more suspicious static. They received, rather, a conversation constructed at random out of a vast stock of innocuous phrases in various tones and voices.