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Quotes About Intrigue

Go to bed! Someone is anxious to come into your dream.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.
~ Alice Munro
I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.
~ Brian Doyle, Martin Marten
Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.
~ Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights.
~ Stefan Emunds
The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.
~ Amit Kalantri
Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends' secret places.
~ Tana French, The Secret Place
Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simply: you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?
~ Stewart O'Nan, West of Sunset
I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.
~ Patrick Modiano
I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.
~ Pixie Lott
If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.
~ Adrian McKinty
My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.
~ David Linley
I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start reading, I thought now this is interesting, you know, the hows of what happened, the actual - the actual sinking of the ship.
~ Erik Larson
I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fair.' I had nothing better to do. I'd dismissed about a dozen ideas, and I was getting sort of antsy. I started reading, and that's where I got hooked.
~ Erik Larson
If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.
~ Jenny Lawson
I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?
~ Ranvir Shorey
Love triangles very rarely stay quiet for very long.
~ Stephen Amell
As an audience member, everyone I talk to is like, 'I'm so excited to see 'Super 8.' I'm so excited to see it.' And part of that is because of his drive to make sure that it stays hidden until the last minute.
~ Michael Giacchino
I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.
~ Jim Rash
He didn't realize it, but with those words he had played directly into Sabri Ramirez's hands. The scenario was now a lock. When Jack Mulhoney turned back to his radio, he only heard static. 7:47 p.m. Vance watched as the frigate got off a warning tracer, but to no effect. The Hind ignored it, as a stream of 57mm rockets from under the chopper's stubby starboard wing flared down, while the radar-slaved machine gun beneath the nose opened fire.
~ Thomas Hoover
Two tiny corpses, one male and the other female, rattle around that enormous closet in my bedroom. Though deceased, still they are quick enough to hide themselves whenever I need to enter the closet to retrieve something.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Perhaps one of the walls to such a room would have built into it a sliding panel that could be opened only from the other side. And next to that room would be another room that was unfurnished and seemed never to have been occupied. But leaning against one wall of this other room, directly below the sliding panel, would be some long wooden sticks; and mounted at the ends of these sticks would be horrible little puppets.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Behold! Behold the black, ungrainèd flesh, The jaw's jeweled hinge that we can barely glimpse …
~ Thomas M. Disch