Quotes About Intrigue

What's it called?" she asked. "La putain enormé," said Ada. "What does it mean?

he spied what appeared to be a crystal scarab rotating far above him, its insides ablaze with cool lights.

Who knows what the Ousters will do?" he said. "They no longer appear to be motivated by human logic." Martin Silenus laughed loudly, spilling his wine as he gestured. "As if we fucking humans were ever motivated by human logic!

May we generally be happy, generally be witty, generally be honest, but above all always be interesting.

For one moment I had a cold feeling he was watching. Over the arm of the couch, I caught a glimpse of his face staring back at me through the dark beyond the window - where just a few minutes earlier I had been crouching. A switch of perception, and I was out on the fire escape again, watching a man and a woman inside, making love on the couch. ... I thought to myself, go ahead, you poor bastard - watch. I don't give a damn anymore.

MI 16 or the CIA.

They were an odd pair- but odd pairs were what kept life interesting.

Wanda Bone Bouvier had that thing that makes a hound leap against its cage. It ws a quality that was partly a bonus from nature and partly learned from cheesecake calendars and Tanya Tucker albums.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

I decided that five main points were essential to my break: 1) a weapon; 2) a hiding place; 3) an automobile for swift movement; 4) an identity, an official record of the fact that a man named Chambers had worked in Washington in the years 1937 and 1938; 5) a life preserver, in the form of copies of official documents stolen by the apparatus, which, should the party move against my life, I might have an outside chance of using as a dissuader.

accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.

I wonder how Blackwater Park will look in the daytime? I don't altogether like it by night.

My eyes have lost nothing yet, at any rate, though I am five-and-thirty; the poor man actually blushed when I looked at him! What sort of colour do you think he would have turned, if one of the little birds in the garden had whispered in his ear, and told him the true story of the charming Miss Gwilt?

Wilkie Collins

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the window, turned back again into the room

Voltaire learned that he was again on the way to the Bastille. Like a good philosopher, he took to his heels—merely utilizing the occasion to elope with another man's wife.

people lead their real, most interesting lives under cover of secrecy

Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark; a man happier with the dubious comfort of the shadows.