Quotes About Intrigue

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, he rolls onto his back

Rear Window, popping

Gypsies, ma! Gypsies! They've come to steal me away!

He walked over to his place, the center of a U-shaped configuration of tables, and set his papers down, pretending to consult them. Instead, he inspected Lily covertly, hoping to detect a weakness, some tiny chink in her armor. Damn her for being more beautiful than ever, he thought. A single glance and he began wanting things he knew were impossible.

Everybody loves a villain.

What are you doing?" I say hoarsely as he trails a finger from the beauty mark on my rib cage to the one on my hip, leaving a path of goose bumps in his wake. "Connecting the dots," he murmurs with a wicked look. "Uh-oh, you made me lose my place. Now I have to start all over again...

Why is he following me? Why are you following me?" He grabbed her arm. "D'Sayre is trying to learn your secrets. Me? I just want a kiss." He pulled her into his embrace and pressed his lips to hers.

The world, I sometimes think, is filled with someone liking someone who likes someone else who likes someone else.

Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.

Eisenhauser conundrum

But what were you doing?' asked her father. 'Looking for the Fairbank rubies,' said Ruby merrily. 'The Count tried to kill me with jellyfish, but you know what? I found them anyway and then he tried to kill me with an octopus.

Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby 'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hitch

Eve of Darkness is, well, sigh, really damned good. I can't wait for the next installment.

The first time he'd laid eyes on Renee's sister he'd been hooked. Hooked on her scent. The sound of her voice. Her prickly demeanor. Oh how he loved that she could be so bitchy. She was a woman who would brook no bullshit, though he had the feeling she hadn't always been so.

I step back, farther inside the salon. Watching Luca surrounded by girls, all vying for his attention, Elisa attached to him like a nasty growth that will need extensive surgery to remove, is not my idea of a fun time.

There's something strange about this big pink bunny...

Who would want to be poked by some dumb girl with a stick?

there's something strange about that giant pink rabbit …

and the priest, Pero Sánchez de la Reina, who had conspired with the Castilian captain.

they are suspected of dismembering and devouring the body of Amelia Earhart

They even revealed the existence of the plot to Magellan; they confided that if the plot succeded

Under cover of darkness, they boarded San Antonio and rushed to the captain's cabin

She turned out to be a ship filled with secrets. In 1511, Cristóbal de Haro had backed a covert Portuguese

explore its murky and seductive reaches. Santiago spent two days sailing upstream