Quotes About Intrigue

The whole thing is like a jigsaw puzzle, but there are too many missing pieces to solve it.

I'm afraid the engine is quite dead," Mr. Poe called out. "And before long," Stephano muttered to the children, "you will be too." "I'm sorry," Mr. Poe said. "I couldn't hear you.

The best books are like complicated surgery--first you can't get your head out of them, and then you can't get them out of your head.

but had been dropped into the middle of its depths. CHAPTER Four

had left behind an enormous fortune, which

is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with

Don't explain,' I said. 'Leave me something to be mystified about.

The only thing a man has to know about women is that he'll never know anything about them.

Picon, who had remained silent for some time, now started assiduously to rearrange the fire-irons.

Welcome to the X-Files meets The Twilight Zone meets the Information Superhighway.

Dr. Fitch is dead, sir.

It begins with Miller the Killer turning his head to see me eating Bolognese from the sick bag. Only he thinks I'm eating…

He's got good reason to worry," said Del Rio. "Whoever killed Shelby got in and out of the house with the skill of a Beverly Hills proctologist. I'm looking into contract killers. I've got a couple of leads. We're going to break this one, Jack.

Emergency Service panel trucks, holding rifles and black telescope-like Geiger counters. He was supposed to get by them?

Everything's interesting. You just have to look closely." "And most people don't.

Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.

To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer, to see and be amazed.

You caught only glimpses of Ross, even if you spent a long evening with him.

The orchid, queen of exoticism, a mute observer slow to reveal the mysteries of her petals. Would that I had such patience, too. -DB

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

She attracted him more than he liked.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.

Do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently.