Quotes About Intrigue

David Baldacci

Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her.

flight back to America. Robie sat in his jump seat and pulled out the burn phone the scrub man back in the ambulance had tossed him right before he'd exited the vehicle. The message was waiting for

Robie slept soundly after killing five men.

Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.

happened?" "Yeah.

David Baldacci

Zane zane zane, ouvre le chien

She will be your living end. - Lady Grinning Soul

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

Let's kill the big one with the red whiskers then, another suggested. He looks like he might be troublesome, and he's probably too stupid to know anything useful. I want that one, Barak whispered.

When you behold the face of pure evil, it will be beautiful.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

But what of Lenore, of Lenore's hair? Here is hair that is clearly within and of itself every color—blond and red and jet-black-blue and honeynut—but which effects an outward optical compromise with possibility that consists of appearing simply dull brown, save for brief teasing glimpses out of the corner of one's eye.

There is something deeply surreal about standing behind a female performer in hotpink peau de soie, a woman whose clitoris and perineum you have priorly seen, and watching her try to get a microwaved egg roll onto her plate with a cocktail fork. —David Foster Wallace, "Big Red Son" (1998)

hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can't eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow—and

Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti- interesting? Because

Right from the start, what I liked best about the analyst was that his office was a mess.

It's not like he kept the money. It's not like he needed it. I think he especially liked the idea that the star of the show might have already moved away or recently died and there was no way to know.

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The other nice thing about the Pump Room is the way it's connected by tunnel to the prorectors' rows of housing units, which means men's rooms, which means Hal can crawl, hunch, and tiptoe into