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Quotes About Intrigue

Why do you keep coming back here, Belinda Swanson?" Adam asked coolly. "I must be so fascinating to you." Deliberately
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Before?" Roo went on. "When he walked by? He was talking to you in French. Well…Cajun French, actually." "He was?" Miranda wanted to let it go, but the temptation was just too great. "What'd he say?" "He said, 'Let's get to know each other.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Teacher's pet Teacher's pet.. Your feeling so perplexed... Your friend has gone into pieces and you'll be next...
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
standing in front of the jewelry store.
~ Rick Mofina
system. The automatic
~ Rick Mofina
Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.
~ Rick Riordan
Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.
~ Rick Riordan
The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!' 'Valdez who?
~ Rick Riordan
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. Next! Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second. Whoa! Dan said. Amy gripped his arm. You found it? No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts! Dan grinned with delight. He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!
~ Rick Riordan
You're probably wondering: why were Medusa's kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa's body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I'm just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you're in the wrong universe
~ Rick Riordan
We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. "What do we do now?
~ Rick Riordan
What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.
~ Rick Riordan
I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.
~ Rick Riordan
If she was looking for me, I did not want to be found. She was scary.
~ Rick Riordan
I want a room decorated with bones! Dan said. Where'd they come from? Cemeteries, Amy said. Back in the 1700s, the cemeteries were getting overcrowded, so they decided to dig up tons of old bodies–all their bones–and move them into the Catacombs. The thing is...look at the dates. See when they started moving bones into the Catacombs? Dan squinted at the screen. He didn't see what she was talking about. Is it my birthday?
~ Rick Riordan
Up in my business Always burning Oracles Romans gonna hate
~ Rick Riordan
I held out my dad's magic box and let it o, sure it would smash to the floor. Instead, the box disappeared. "Cool," I said. "Sure you I can get it back?" "No," Bast said. "Now come on!
~ Rick Riordan
The House is in the house Chapter 38
~ Rick Riordan
I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.
~ Rick Riordan
WOULD IT SURPRISE you to learn that the place was bigger on the inside?
~ Rick Riordan
What an extraordinary few hours—from Holloway first thing, to being assaulted and robbed on Regent Street, not to mention being recruited to spy on the notorious Cokers by Frobisher the previous day. The Library could not compete.
~ Kate Atkinson
that one way or another the Germans were tracking them from the
~ Kate Atkinson
Each reported on a myriad others, filaments in an evangelistic web of treachery that stretched across the country.
~ Kate Atkinson
Gloria hesitated to imagine what kind of emergency might take place in the bedroom that would require her to hit a panic button. Graham wanting sex, maybe.
~ Kate Atkinson