Quotes About Intrigue

Como escritor, solo tienes un trabajo: hacer que el lector siga leyendo.

Solomon raised an eyebrow. Or rather, he left it where it was and dropped his body slightly.

It was like suddenly discovering a family of otters in one of your shoes. If you've ever done that.

Lieutenant Jokai Chuma in I-27's midget was first to reach the Heads and at 8 p.m. crossed the indicator loop undetected by following close behind ferries and other traffic. A few minutes later, however, the midget's propeller became entangled in the torpedo net near the West Gate and she became hopelessly trapped like a fly in a spider web.

De radeloze man bezocht een aantal boekhandels en bladerde in tientallen albums van Suske en Wiske maar vond geen spoor van gelijkenis met de verfrommelde, vlekkerige brochure die hij opgerold in Celia's jaszak had gevonden en waarin Suske met een volwassen lid Wiske sodomiseerde terwijl ze beiden op een schommel zwierden en Tante Sidonie zich bezighield met een Coca-Colafles.

To treat things with respect and intrigue, we don't need to understand their motivations and inner lives—whatever knowing the inner life of a tangelo or a floor tile would mean.4 We just need to pay enough attention to discover what they do and how they work—to discover what they obviously and truly are—and then to make use of them in gratifyingly novel ways. And

Bond. James Bond.

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.

Mine's Bond – James Bond.

She had almost tripped over him as he watched the drops fall with idiot fascination. Somehow she could not hurry past with a brief flicker of nona dolorosa to indicate her annoyance

We've piled his plate high with shit," Fox conceded. "And not even tied a bib around his neck," Kaye added. "Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?

Woodwork creaks and out come the freaks, eh?

Rebus stopped her and turned to Chilton. 'Why isn't Neil

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

Presencia y Ausencia Cierta persona puede tener, como dices, una maravillosa presencia; no lo sé. Lo que sí sé es que tiene una ausencia perfectamente encantadora

STUPEFYING Fair as a bride is the world. But beware — For none may marry this stupefying one. (Anwar-i -Suhaili)

I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.

Lily Donaldson tiptoed to the front door and winced when it opened with a creak.

He crossed his long legs and leaned back into the seat he'd chosen on the settee next to her favorite chair. "Lilith is here for something called the Book of Anwarth. She has apparently located it somewhere in England. London, to be precise. She's moved a significant portion of her entourage here.

I just didn't know where he'd come from. Or, as Mina would no doubt say, from where he'd come.

Every door had several large, heavy-duty dead bolts on both the inside and outside. All of the windows were bolted, and at each end of the farmhouse, large metal chains attached to huge steel rings were embedded securely into the wall. The previous owners had apparently chained very large guard dogs on both ends of the house. And they had barred the windows and put dead bolts on both sides of each door. What on earth were they afraid of? Tom wondered.

For the next six years, a cone of silence surrounded the ranch. Dozens of unusual events were observed. Animals were mutilated. Mysterious aircraft appeared and disappeared. Gunshots were fired at unknown creatures. And "the entity" manifested itself in ways that challenged and bewildered the NIDS team, but none of these events were made public.

Not a single person has been caught or charged in the entire thirty-five year history of the phenomenon.

Doors in the home would suddenly open and close with great force for no apparent reason.