Quotes About Intrigue

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place and the right time. While Marie certainly would not have considered herself lucky to have lived through such a devastating period, history is fortunate that she remained still for long enough to record the events that raged on around her.

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

What? You buried the dagger with him? - Pirra

How's being in love with your middle brother's girlfriend going?

Thanks, Neil," Emma said. "So, what do you want to do next?" she asked DeMarco. "Find out what Stephanie Taliaferro Hernandez has on Quinn." "And how do you propose to do that?" "I have no idea.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

Briana watched him for a moment and then looked back out her window. "You don't know what you're missing, Kyle.

Amazing, Heather thought, looking back at the email message. Who was this incredible, gifted person?

Women only love those that they don't know.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

Hansu was not an ordinary person, and he was capable of actions she could neither see nor understand.

Was it that girl?

If Risa wrote even an ordinary description on an invoice, Noa would pause to read it again, not because of what it said, but because he could detect that there was a kind of dancing spirit in the hand that wrote such elegant letters.

coincidences are seductive

To feel the threat of some sinister somebody who could fall in step behind him trying to mess him up and take his shit, to feel that and be excited by it.

How darkness infects those among us who can't resist a juicy tale.

We know very well what there is under other people's tails, but we cannot live without sniffing.

Ma comes to stand beside me, and our intruder makes a clucking sound of disapproval. "This one worries me, Ranee. She's very secretive.

CIA case officers, or COs,

One of the girls saw her, then did a double-take. Her eyes sparkled. Not a bright sparkle, but a dull, dark sparkle, like the twinkling of a lantern at the bottom of a deep well. Here's something fun, her eyes said. Here's something freakish. Let's play with it and see if we can make it cry.

La curiosité naît de la jalousie

Through the green slats of their private look-out post they could quiz the adult world, queer mixture of stupidity and power, getting on with its incomprehensible affairs, unconscious of spies in the undergrowth.

unspoken hangs like smoke in the rooms and corridors of Temple Alice. What is uttered are small asides, loaded with venom:

The time when Christ was 33, so I could see if he really got up from the grave. Or maybe I'd go back to the time of Cleopatra, before Marc Antony got tight with her. I'd try to hit on her first.