Quotes About Intrigue

looks as if I have an open umbrella concealed under my skirt. How did that happen?

It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed.

So why the pelican? Said Haskoll. The thief was giving Haskoll a look that said, Man, why NOT the pelican?

Recall that one builds a labyrinth not to hide but to lie in wait.

I'd met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept.

Ciro pointed through the

But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

Your eyes shine, he said. How do they do that? Blood, she said.

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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

The wish to sleep with certain people can arise in us long before we have had the chance to get to know them properly – before, that is, we have had any opportunity to sit down and have a discussion with them about their history, interests and feelings.

It is one of the ironies of love that it is easiest confidently to seduce those we are least attracted to.

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing.

Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

Watching people behave is nothing special; watching them trying to behave is always fascinating.

Tar-Aiym?" interrupted Kitten. "I know that word. Peot claims to be a Tar-Aiym?" But Philip ignored her.

Not the Force, but a more ancient, more highly developed sense in man half convinced him they were being watched.

From the box she removed a lightsaber. Finn eyed it uncertainly, but even in the poor light, Han recognized it immediately. Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. "Where'd you get that?" Han demanded. "Long story. A good one—for later.

in a house where he knew all the carpets as territories, castles, jumping squares, there was this other room with a carpet he had never jumped on.

Einstein once wrote, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The brightest has a gathering of people stood about it. Trapped beneath their heels, stretched shadows shy back from the flames, yet do not jump or dance. What are they burning there, so still by night? My

Or you can make it easy on yourself," Skulduggery said. "You can tell us where Abyssinia is.

And then the reached into their robes and pulled out sub-machine guns

Martin Flanery,