Quotes About Intrigue

You never forget your first felony. Mine was mail tampering. As a hoops-crazed 13-year-old, I rifled through a new neighbor's mailbox to confirm that the occupant of the split-level on 98 1/2 Street in Bloomington, Minn., really was former Gophers basketball star Flip Saunders.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life.

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.

I am interested in the Oscar Wilde we don't know.

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

There's a lot of interest in Nano outside India.

I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen.

What seemed to be happening was that the change itself wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty.

daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn.

What does he look like? Not big, not small, not short, not tall, not old not young, not dark nor blond. His eyes are the only thing that give him away; they're as mean as a snake's. We were all afraid of him. Sometimes we feared we might become as evil as him!

señor del castillo–. No han encontrado a los Caballeros Rojos, pero sí sus huellas. –Sí –

Vaya —exclamó—. ¿Dónde estamos? Una fuerte carcajada sonó por encima de sus cabezas. —Casi nunca llegan tan lejos..., o tan cerca, según cómo se mire —dijo una criatura encaramada en un árbol.

Para qué quieres eso? —preguntó Mallory mientras cruzaban la avenida Dulac siguiendo el mapa. —Para atrapar cosas —contestó Simon sin mirarla a los ojos. —¿Qué clase de cosas? ¿Es que no tienes ya suficientes animales?.

breathlessly, opening the door to his old bedroom. She