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Quotes About Intrigue

ImperfecÅ£iunea este mult mai seduc?toare decât plicticoasa regulariate. O figur? emoÅ£ionant? este o asamblare de defecte armonios repartizate.
~ Pascal Bruckner
Though I felt like a voyeur to some kind of disaster, my eyes were riveted to the scene ...
~ Pat Conroy
Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.
~ Pat Conroy
made her unapproachable, apart. She was one of those girls who pass through your life leaving secret wreckage, but no visible wake. You remember her, but for all the wrong reasons.
~ Pat Conroy
What a dull place the world would be if all the mysteries in it were solved.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing beneath his foot. Sometimes he heard rain, a bird-cry, wind soughing through tall trees; mostly he was aware only of an intimation of vastness, silence, as though he stood at the edge of a world. He saw nothing. So he let the charcoal imagine what might lie on the other side of the door.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
I could barely do more than watch the rich tapestry they were of their glances and slow smiles, the words they spoke that said one thing to my father, and another to me, while the ivy, growing secretly all around us, whispered warnings.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
I stared at the changing patterns on the back of his white shirt as he moved under the trees.
~ Patricia Duncker
He shook his head. "I don't believe I know the name." "She's new in town." Angel shifted the strap of her bag higher on her shoulder. "I'm investigating Phillip's death. Actually, I came down here to talk to Greg Johansson, but no one was at his office." "I imagine Greg's
~ Patricia H. Rushford
Angel discovered an open suitcase and clothes tossed
~ Patricia H. Rushford
Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
~ Patricia Highsmith
Once the back of their hands brushed on the table, and Therese's skin there felt seperately alive and rather burning. There could not understand it, but it was so. Therese glanced at her face that was somewhat turned away, and again she knew that instant of half-recognition. And knew, too, that it was not to be believed. She had never seen the woman before. If she had, could she had forgotten?
~ Patricia Highsmith
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if...What if...' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Polisiye romanlar iyidir. Her çeÅŸit insan?n cinayet iÅŸleyebileceÄŸini kan?tlarlar.
~ Patricia Highsmith
When Cade entered a while later, he found her sitting stiffly in the rocking chair, a sleepy Serena on her lap cuddling her doll. Lily's eyes were blank and full of pain as they met his, and Cade seemed to feel her anguish spilling into him. He was an outsider, a man who never got close to anyone, but somehow this woman had got inside of him. He didn't like the feeling, but there wasn't anything he could do about it now. Jack's
~ Patricia Rice
stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!
~ Dan Brown
Langdon turned to Sophie. Who is that? What... happened? Teabing hobbled over. You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
~ Dan Brown
Yo no he escrito un libro sobre verdades y mentiras. Simplemente, un libro que ha despertado la curiosidad de la gente en el pasado
~ Dan Brown
This guy eluded the French police... in loafers? -Chief Anderson
~ Dan Brown
The coyly nicknamed explosive Key4 had been developed by Special Forces specifically for opening locked doors with minimal collateral damage. Consisting primarily of cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine with a diethylhexyl plasticizer, it was essentially a piece of C-4 rolled into paper-thin sheets for insertion into doorjambs. In the case of the library's reading room, the explosive had worked perfectly.
~ Dan Brown
A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.
~ Dan Brown
La chiave, the raspy voice replied. The password.
~ Dan Brown
The carved stone sign in front read Building C. Imaginative title, Langdon thought
~ Dan Brown