Quotes About Intrigue

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.

It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

I didn't say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

It's like moving through a delicious fog.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

You can't go yet, not without telling us what all's happened to you since we saw you last. I faked amnesia, nearly killed Alan Turing, got knocked unconscious by a collapsing wall, faked my own death, and met the Queen. It's a long story, he said.

Nimeni nu poate s? ias? din propria sa existen??, aÈ™a cum nici ursul nu poate s? ias? din cuÈ™ca lui de la menajerie. Tot ceea ce i se întâmpl? cuiva din partea altcuiva pare straniu pentru noi. Când noi ar?t?m interes preocup?rilor altora, acord?m, de fapt, interes propriilor noastre preocup?ri.

Who would steal them? No idea. They didnt leave a note.

Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name?

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

A mirror hung between the shelves. Clara stepped in front of it and let her fingers run over the silver roses that covered the frame. She had never seen anything so beautiful. The glass they surrounded was dark, as if the night had spilled onto it. It was misted up, and right where she saw the reflection of her face was the imprint of a hand.

Secrets. They add to the darkness of the world but they also make you want to find out more...

Jedes Buch sollte mit so einem Papier beginnen (...) Am Besten mit einem dunklen: dunkelrot, dunkelblau, je nachdem, wie der Einband des Buches ist. Wenn du dann das Buch aufschlägst, ist es wie im Theater: Erst ist da der vorhang - du ziehst ihn zur Seite, und die Vorstellung beginnt.

widened greedily, Meggie concluded they could only be discussing a book

Gefährlich ... seit wann interessiert dich das?

What happened to a book that disappeared into its own story?

Uh-oh, thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. This person wants to kill me.

Kind of. White guy, maybe in his thirties, really big. Driving an old brown Toyota. The cops are after him now.

though as secrets went, this wasn't great. The kind I preferred were about specific people.

The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

Sabemos hacer cosas pero no sabemos vivir. Es curioso ese rasgo familiar.