Quotes About Intrigue

It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.

What makes the first sentence of A Prayer for Owen Meany such a good one is that the whole novel is contained in it.

The Harry Lime Theme"—

The Third Man Theme

To watch my mother onstage, and to watch Dan being awful to her, was such a riveting lie. It was not the play that interested us—it was what a lie it was: that Dan was awful to my mother, that he meant her harm. That was fascinating.

the Old Girls quickly heard of Alice and her condition. (Jack, of course, was the condition.)

Hello, there," he said, in an accent she couldn't place.

He stepped over to Vidian and turned the man's head. There, in his left ear, he saw a small dataport. A moment's revulsion struck and passed. "All right," he said. "Who wants to download Vidian's brain?

All this had happened since Ben's arrival from... where? She still didn't know. Unbelievable.

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.

She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bed springs as they reached a crescendo as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King

Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.

But there are times you pull something out of the water for which there's no accounting, the only remnant of a story whose contours are a mystery.

George himself is no mystery, but the mystery George is immense. It's watching him uncover it all that's so damn interesting.

Pullios stopped in the door.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I have experience seducing nephews.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!

I have a talent for only attracting people I have no interest in dating.