Quotes About Intrigue

The vampire has just realized she's in a meeting populated exclusively by spooks and people who go bump in the night.

The PM smiles, and for a moment I see a flickering vision where His face should be: an onion-skin Matryoshka doll of circular shark-toothed maws, lizard-man faces, and insectile hunger. "A word in my study if you don't mind. Right this way.

a man so wrapped in secrecy that his shadow doesn't have a high enough security clearance to stick to his heels.

I'm afraid we shall find evidence of treason: if not, look harder.

Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the Black Chamber in 1929, with the immortal phrase, "gentlemen do not read each other's mail," but that didn't stop the Black Chamber's secrets

Mug of Joe," grunts Johnny. "Mocha venti with an extra shot for me, no cream," I add. "Anything else?" I shake my head and she wanders off. Johnny looks suspicious. "Since when do you speak Starbucks?" I shrug. "It's not as if I can help it; they've got our office surrounded, and they don't like it if you try to order in English." We wait

I'm lurking in the shubbery behind an industrial unit, armed with a clipboard, a pager, and a pair of bulbous night-vision goggles that drench the scenery in ghastly emeralt tones. The bloody thing make me look like a train-spotter with a gas-mask fetish, and wearing them is giving me a headache

A pair of vampires with clipboards walk into the back of a church in time for evening mass.

Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and recording everything.

What could have been Henry Cutter's

Charles Todd

and left his bicycle well hidden behind the stone wall

The revolver was swifter and the darkness came faster. Max Hume had known what he was about.

The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz.

Charlotte MacLeod

Do your people have a proverb about a man looking for something inside the bag of a man looking for something?

And strange are the ways of deep emotion.

But the eye is very greedy and will steal a look at something its owner has no wish to see.

Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.

Trouble is our only defense against boredom.

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

I never like revealing too much about myself. Once you start giving people that look into your life, then they just want more and more.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.