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Quotes About Intrigue

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.
~ Harold Pinter
Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.
~ Steven Wright
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
~ Don Roff
Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.
~ Tim Vine
What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?
~ Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
~ Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.
~ Freya Mavor
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!
~ Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon's mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.
~ Stephen King
Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.
~ Natalya Vorobyova
The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.
~ Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
But nowhere in the file had anyone said, "Oh, and by the way, he runs like a gazelle with an espresso addiction." At least not in the parts I'd skimmed.
~ Lish McBride, Firebug
Shut the front door!" Jenna exclaimed.Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. "The door is shut?
~ Laura Kreitzer, Keepers
Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.
~ P.C. Zick
You can thank Henry Ford for that. He was a warlock, you know.
~ Ian Richards
A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He pulled out a dagger from ... she wasn't sure where. Did he have that in his loin cloth? What else does he have in there? (Amy's thoughts, The Witching Pen)
~ Dianna Hardy, The Witching Pen
There is new information.""Are you going to share it?""No."Of course not. Because it would totally ruin his whole mysterious vibe. Can't have that.
~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, King's
Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an ey
~ Derek Landy, Death Bringer
You never know what you will find in your pants!
~ Ken Poirot
I smile more when people confused, why he is smiling.
~ Rahul Bodkhe
Great googly-moogly, I needed to stay away from this vampire.
~ K.F. Breene, Raised in Fire
Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.
~ Justin Cronin, The Twelve
What's your name?""Emma Gould, " she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?
~ Dennis Lehane, Live by Night