Quotes About Intrigue

She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy.

The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

Yo, por un cúmulo de males de todo género, había de servir de ejemplo a todo aquel que, inspirado por el solo amor del bien público y de la justicia, se atreva, escudado únicamente en su inocencia, a decir a los hombres la verdad abiertamente, sin apoyarse en las intrigas y

lo misterioso me inquieta siempre, es harto contrario a mi carácter, abierto hasta la imprudencia.

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

What are those?

She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written.

Mysterious Words from the Past

She heard a scrape, and then a rustling sound.

Then there might be dead people.

She's like a bonfire on the darkest night of the year, a bonfire on a prairie in a snowstorm. You can't help yourself, you're going to turn in her direction, and she's doing nothing to make this happen.

everyone who is interesting has a past

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

I'm really starting to like all this spy work," Vee said. "When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.