Quotes About Intrigue

I'll never know if it is truly possible for me to stop thinking about you because I'll never.

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The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it. I really need to take a shower.

Envy is what they have for us because we have one power no god can ever have, and that is the power to surprise oneself.

Indeed, sir, I would be more than willing to do whatever I can to speed my mistress and myself away from this accursed country and away from the likes of you." She looked Alex directly in the eye. "You, sir, ride with death on your shoulder, and it does not make for pleasant company.

In 1804, through intelligence reports obtained by Salcedo, Charles IV, the king of Spain learned that the US government planned to acquire parts of Texas.113 Spanish spies in New Orleans reported that US agents proposed to gain permission to enter Texas under the pretense of capturing runaway slaves. Their actual plan was to convince Caddo and Comanche groups to form military alliances and attack Spanish settlements.

them. "Looking up an old mystery?" he'd asked.

It calls itself 'Murderbot,'" Gurathin said. I opened my eyes and looked at him; I couldn't stop myself. From their expressions I knew everything I felt was showing on my face, and I hate that. I grated out, "That was private.

In a voice soft and deep as night, she said, "Where is he?" Moon's breath caught in his chest. Leaving, he thought, turning for the door. He would have made it, but Stone was fast even as a groundling, and caught his wrist.

It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

A forensic sweep might show that I'd been there. If forensic sweeps worked like they did in the entertainment media, which, come to think about it, I had no idea if they did or not. (Note to self: look up real forensic sweeps.)

But they were humans—who knows why they did anything?

Nicholas, dressed in black and trailing them like a sinister storm cloud, had a dry little preoccupied smile.

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.)

Bodies can show up anywhere.

Arabella's mother that tempting?

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.

The Agency By Pamela Griffiths

I agree, there is something underlying, something we are not aware of'. 'We will just have to keep on probing and looking until we have a full picture of what happened before David died,'  Jackie told her.

Martin Edwards

It was like the old riddle: How did the man get out of the room with no windows and no doors? Well, the answer was: The same way he got in there.

What's that kid's story?" Hayden asked.

You never knew what happened behind closed doors.