Quotes About Intrigue

the expensive-looking thing in her hand resembled a cross between a miniature oar and an orthopedic brace. She was off for a fast game of something, but Case had no idea what.

Lupus Yonderboy

Lonny Zone stepped forward, tall and cadaverous, moving with the slow undersea grace of his addiction.

Don't," she said, "fingerprints.

When Lowbeer wished a conversation in public to be private, which she invariably did, London emptied itself around her.

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. How is such a thing possible? I'll do my best to explain.

Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle.

Ciano also heard hints "of the Fuehrer's tender feelings for a beautiful girl. She is twenty years old, with beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body. Her name is Sigrid von Lappus. They see each other frequently and intimately." (The Ciano Diaries, p. 85.)

But the Fuehrer had smelled a rat

As the strife-ridden year of 1932 approached its end, Berlin was full of cabals, and of cabals within cabals.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

I remembered those elements in Scile, the little opacities that had always been present, that I'd always been intrigued by, that now seemed to have come to constitute all of him.

The postcode did not look quite regular. Some hush-hush Trystero carrier?

their officer. The acid and powder in the

I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?

Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?

How many mysteries are locked within the people we think we know.

the most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

James I proved a capable ruler, which ensured his assassination by nobles.

She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.