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Quotes About Intrigue

My comebacks aren't nearly as sharp as my shiv. Come inside and I'll show you.
~ Cassia Leo, Anti-Romance
The real mystery isn't what's under the redaction mark, but what's above it.
~ The Covert Comic
Black graffiti on a black helicopter.
~ The Covert Comic
Murder and a glass of wine: priceless
~ Casey Quinn, NUMB
You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow, ' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.
~ Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
I've been trying to figure that out since I met him. I've had more luck trying to smell the color nine.
~ Jenny Allen, Rose of Jericho
But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.
~ CLAMP
Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p
~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
He could be doing quantum physics in his head or undressing her in his mind—she'd never know the difference.
~ Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
Why was the meeting between the Americans and the Russians so tensed?Because nobody knows what Vladimir Put In Barbara's Bush! From 'Walk On By II
~ Stephan Attia
Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us.
~ C.J. Sansom
It was a smile that spelledtrouble. With a promise.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Charter boats are like books with no covers.
~ Tania Aebi
Hmmm... that's interesting.""What?""There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.
~ Derek Landy
Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!
~ Shannon L. Alder
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
~ Shana Alexander
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.
~ Patricia Highsmith
A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.
~ Sophy Burnham
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.
~ Eli Roth
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
~ Peter Shaffer
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
~ Diane Arbus
Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.
~ Gary K. Wolf