Quotes About Intrigue

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle. Within its Spanish bungalows, its eucalyptus-scented shadows, you feel as though you've discovered a delicious and dark secret, a tantalizing page-turner with sneakily subversive undercurrents.

Admiring the D, are you?

And I begin to wonder, the dreams I can't remember, when I wake in the morning, where in the world did they go?

He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.

Actress Dana Delany fantasizes about making love with two men.

The king was pregnant.

The guardian flipped it over. "It's one of ours, yes . . . hmm. Says it's addressed to Eudaimonia—

Oh, don't worry about me," said the ambassador. "I haven't had this much fun since the Duchess of Umberwall went sleepwalking in the middle of a battlefield and beat the enemy champion in her nightgown." Harriet made a mental note to get to know the Duchess of Umberwall immediately.

Mut mikä hitto tuol? Mitä hyö raahaat? Onk hyö tappant Koskelan?

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Mary Poppins's greatest precept: Never Explain.

Don't write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

La femme est mystérieuse et adorable dans toutes celles de ses voies qui mènent à la volupté.

Gossip can be entertaining—occasionally I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

Chemistry was such a strange thing. I'd be willing to bet even Micah couldn't tell me why hundreds of men could leave me cold, while this one could string me along forever with only a smile.

Why the hell was she smiling like that?...Her mouth was blown so wide that the soft insides showed at the corners, like another grin was building in there. As if her laughter tumbled. Like joy was a living thing.

Gerade als er in einigen Bogenlinien auf die Portierloge zusteuerte, stieß die Drehtür ein merkwürdiges Individuum in die Vorhalle" (S.13)

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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.