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Quotes About Intrigue

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?
~ Jean Webster
Hayat?ma girmi? kad?nlar." Bu m?sralar hep akl?n?n bir kö?esindeydi. Sanki av pe?inde ko?ma nedenini bile özetliyorlard?. Güzel bir çehreyi bir trende, kalabal?kta, bir sokakta gizlice izlemeye dayanan özel ve ebedi bir dramd?, ama ayn? zamanda da kad?nlar? ona do?ru çeken dayan?lmaz bir co?kuydu. Bu ilk kar??la?madaki hayranl?kt?. Ve gerçek bir k?v?lc?m. Sayfa:138
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
Ses yeux gardaient leur puissance envoûtante. Détailler un tel pouvoir, c'est le détruire.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
Ever since then, whenever I go through the main hall, I detect a hint of amusement in the empress's smile.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
Desire baffles knowledge and power.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
That a closed door only invites closer scrutiny.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Jack!" she said. "What did you do to Lydia? Why does she look dead?
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Starr Rescues the Heartbreaker. Chapter One. Sabrina Starr had met him once—this incorrigible heartbreaker—in New York City during her mission to rescue the Chinese ambassador and thus preserve world peace. Nice beginning, right? Skye? Skye, are you awake?
~ Jeanne Birdsall
The sensation that seized me that morning?the twentieth of May?as I sat on my velvet cushion beside the Pope and stared down at the man standing beside my husband, was swift, irrevocable, and violent, like a dagger plunged into the heart. I trembled. I did not want it; I did not seek it; yet there it was, and I was at the mercy of it. And I knew nothing of the man who had just stolen my soul.
~ Jeanne Kalogridis
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please. I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.
~ Jean-Pierre Melville
tonight. Anna, or her people, took her from her crib
~ JEFF ABBOTT
another bank was robbed today, the third this month. The unusual robbers—
~ Jeff Brown
I love anything that haunts me and never leaves
~ Jeff Buckley
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
~ Jeff Candido and Jason Hoff
Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you. An illusion is what needs all the bells and whistles to make itself appear grander than it really is, which is just a trick that can be explained.
~ Jeff Guinn
Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
~ Jeff Lindsay
TOM CLANCY'S OP-CENTER NOVELS Op-Center Mirror Image Games of State Acts of War Balance of Power State of Siege Divide and Conquer Line of Control Mission of Honor Sea of Fire Call to Treason War of Eagles Out of the Ashes Into the Fire Scorched Earth Dark Zone For Honor Sting of the Wasp
~ Jeff Rovin
it was better to leave a mystery outside the door -- something they would expand in their minds, and fear.
~ Jeff Rovin
The kitchen lights came on, revealing two goons behind the bald guy. Younger guys who were also dressed entirely in black. The one on the left had one of those ridiculous curved collectors' knives, the kind they sell on the Home Shopping Network that looked like they're used to skin buffalo. Glinting in the overhead florescence, it didn't look ridiculous at all. His partner had opted for the maniac implement de jour—a sixteen inch chainsaw.
~ Jeff Strand
Hi. I'm here to murder you. May I come in?
~ Jeff Strand
My free will was compromised, if only by the severe temptation of the unknown.
~ Jeff Vandermeer