Quotes About Intrigue

A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a...a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad.

Oh wow! There's a great big Range Rover pulled up outside and a big girl's getting out!' Jonnie yelled. 'I think we might like her after all if she lets us have a ride in her big posh car!

And talking of powers of deduction, I've just taken on an interesting new case.

Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape.

A confusing title means for an exciting book

It really set my nerves jangling," Jenny Larsen confessed. "Wasn't it strange, the way it kept up, day after day?" Alice Grebe, to whom this question was directed, said nothing, for

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested so much within oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

Something touched his imagination for a moment, suggesting that Leona was a person and had her story and that all stories were trouble.

A strange smile wavered just around his face, not yet in his face

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

The overarching joy and lasting appeal of noir is that it makes doom fun.

Bergen, and Oldfield. The

So many wicked ways to scandal-skin a cat.

eunuch's tit—

and they got a 459 thing going.

I think about her. I think about the first time I saw her.. I had a book in my hand and I was reading and for some reason I looked up...She didn't see me. She didn't see me, but I saw her.

I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable position to put yourself in... it's something that we all haven't really made our minds up about, and that's why we find it all so interesting.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance.

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.

Osama Bin Laden was found hiding in a house compound in Pakistan by American forces. Muammar Gaddafi was captured by rebel militia while hiding in a drain underneath a road in Libya. And Pakistani starlet Veena Malik was found by the Indian media hiding in a suburban hotel in Mumbai.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.