Quotes About Intrigue

When people ask what I see in you, I just smile and look away because I'm afraid if they knew, they'd fall in love with you too.

Some of the most beautiful and fulfilling things in life are often things that we have very little understanding of.

That was another thing about him. He made you want to spill your secrets.

saffron. Not only Titans would attend. Minos was

That night, slipping among us like a snake, quick and silent and flickering, the plague began.

She was taller than I was, taller than any woman I had ever seen. Her black hair was loose down her back, and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. She was so close I could smell her, seawater laced with dark brown honey. I did not breathe. I did not dare.

Why don't you come up sometime and see me?… Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

Lisa said it sounded like magic!

and so I took hers. I did. And no one ever worked it out, so I suppose

A bee drones by, scribbling on the air near their heads...

El tapiz rojo que ocultaba a Telassim días atrás había sido cambiado por otro azul que presentaba en el centro un gran heptágono estrellado.

Nina flipped through the photos taken at the crime scene and stopped when she noticed

Silence sits like a voyeur with popcorn, watching both of us.

Several of these plots involved gaining control of the young duke. William's father had taken the precaution of naming several guardians for his son, but one by one they were assassinated. Count

King Dagobert, he was a marked man.

As she slowly came to, the princess, fascinated, gazed at the card, and this time her haggard eyes grew wide with astonishment. For upon the card, which until now had appeared immaculately white, letters were gradually becoming visible, and the princess read: "Fan-tô-mas!

This is not a very surprising story; but wait a minute; it's going to be.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum.

Swann had, as he shook the Marquise's hand, seen her bosom from close to and from above, he plunged an attentive, serious, absorbed, almost anxious, gaze into the depths of her corsage, and his nostrils, intoxicated by the woman's perfume, quivered like a butterfly ready to go and settle on the half-glimpsed flower.

he was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought a new form of beauty, which strengthens and enlarges his own power of perception, without his knowing even whether he is ever to see her again whom he loves already, although he knows nothing of her, not even her name.

It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over - and not the faintest clue how it's done. The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring trick, it's a miracle,"...