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Quotes About Intrigue

be like seeing ghosts or scavengers
~ Tui T. Sutherland
So let me get this straight," she said. "You're telling me nothing about why you're here, but you expect me to bring you into our kingdom and buy you a drink. NightWings really do think highly of themselves, don't they?" "What if I bought you that drink?" he offered.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Logan, did your shirt just . . . move?" "Don't worry about it," he said. "I brought backup.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Queen: a closely guarded secret
~ Tui T. Sutherland
and in a minute he had six will-o'-the-wisps floating in front of him, jostling and bumping each other as they tried to get his attention and look mysteriously mesmerizing at the same time. The effect was not terribly menacing.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Aha," Rollan said. "I knew that boll weevil in my soup last night looked suspicious.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
No, but it won't let you touch it," Zoe said. "They're fast. And just so you know, right now it is trying very, very hard to hypnotize you.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Don't think about Queen Scarlet.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
All right, he said slowly. It's a scroll.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
And then we heard the THUMP-THUMP-THUMP of grumpy talons stomping our way, and in comes gigantic Morrowseer, all frowning and portentous as usual.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
A secret hides within their book.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
She carried a faint odor of cocktail sausages mingled with sweat. Like a fool I slipped my hand up the inside of her leg. I felt the roughness of her nylons.
~ Unknown
Wondering just how Mr Church thought he had deserved anything short of impalement, Stephen walked into the cabin.
~ Patrick O'Brian
In fact he was quite pleased with it: one of the few female corpses he had seen with that curious quasicalcification of the palmar aponeuroses – fresh, too – but since it was only the hands that interested him at the moment, would either of his colleagues choose to go snacks?
~ Patrick O'Brian
I matrimoni degli altri sono una perpetua fonte di perplessità», commentò Stephen.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The bedroom door opened a few inches. "Hey
~ Unknown
frame is a mystery.
~ Unknown
To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
~ Patrick White
Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
~ Paul Celan
Are you ready to bring back a weapon from another world?
~ Unknown
DI Cartwright: The cat is booby trapped? DI Quill: Welcome to my world.
~ Unknown
No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.
~ Paul Gallico
Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.
~ Unknown
Lom mister,' he said, and winked at me. 'It's the CIA, isn't it? You're an agent, you tell people you're a journalist because that's good cover ...
~ Paul Theroux