Quotes About Intrigue

He didn't want to go and look. But at the same time, a part of him wanted to look more than anything.

Harry leaned forward, his eyes flashing. "I see nothing.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

Half the men in the room were drawn to her as flies to a ripe apricot.

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

Seven things has Lady Lackless Keeps them underneath her black dress One a ring that's not for wearing One a sharp word, not for swearing Right beside her husband's candle There's a door without a handle In a box, no lid or locks Lackless keeps her husband's rocks There's a secret she's been keeping She's been dreaming and not sleeping On a road, that's not for traveling Lackless likes her riddle raveling.

There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

And it was a secret thing, of sorts. I have always had a weakness for secrets.

Estuviera donde estuviese, siempre era el centro de todas las miradas.— Kvothe frunció el ceño—. No me interpretéis mal. No quiero decir que fuera llamativa, ni vanidosa. Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, pero lo que hace que un hombre se acerque al fuego no tiene nada que ver con su resplandor. Lo que te atrae del fuego es el calor que sientes cuando te acercas a él.

See a woman pale as snow? Silent come and silent go. What's their plan? What's their plan? Chandrian. Chandrian.

So strange and rare. So full of faraway.

I wanted to get inside so badly I could taste it. It probably shows a perverse element of my personality that even though I was finally inside the Archives, surrounded by endless secrets, that I was drawn to the one locked door I had found. Perhaps it is human nature to seek out hidden things. Perhaps it is simply my nature.

Dijiste «Me preguntaba qué podrías estar haciendo aquí».- Hizo un gesto displicente-. Desde ese momento fui tuya.

What what. Hush hush.

She pulled the cork and sniffed it. "What's in it?" "Sunlight," I said. "And a smile, and a question.

Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since.

I'm about to die of terminal curiosity, you know.

Eso no suena nada sospechoso —dijo—. ¡Y luego te preguntas por qué la gente habla de ti! —No me pregunto por qué hablan —dije—. Me pregunto qué dicen.

Quizá sea propio de la naturaleza humana buscar cosas ocultas.