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Quotes About Intrigue

GABRIEL SILK
~ Jenny Nimmo
I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes
~ Jeremy Aldana
The hallway grew darker still as the big door closed over several guards' bodies behind them with a crunchy squish.
~ Jeremy Robinson
You know what would be cool, next time?" said a voice behind me. "Black roses.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
She knew the secret of my creepiness.
~ Jerry Stahl
So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
It was as though the edges of things were where the greater part might be hidden - where he could find more.
~ Jesse Ball
At all times all parts of the world are eternally fascinating.
~ Jesse Ball
'A dog bites a man'—that's a story; 'A man bites a dog'—that's a good story...
~ Jesse Lynch Williams
Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.
~ Jessica Day George
I abducted Princess Petunia last week. I didn't harm her; I delivered her to the Grand Duchess Volenskaya, but now she is in terrible danger," he said.
~ Jessica Day George
My first letter to Rolian had opened a floodgate, however, and the Roulaini king had begun writing me other letters, rather admiring ones. Marta and Alle, our assistant, were teasing me about having a second royal suitor. But
~ Jessica Day George
Jessica Fletcher
~ place, flaps
Don't ask anything more. There are more secrets in your hair than in a thousand questions.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Femeia-etern? enigm?.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
It had swept him, he said, "into a dream from which I did not recover for months.
~ Erik Larson
Boswell and Thompson write, "Every night the rooms on the two upper floors of the Castle were filled to overflowing. Holmes reluctantly accommodated a few men as paying guests, but catered primarily to women—preferably young and pretty ones of apparent means, whose homes were distant from Chicago and who had no one close to them who might make inquiry if they did not soon return. Many never went home. Many, indeed, never emerged from the castle, having once entered it
~ Erik Larson
I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.
~ Erik Larson
Rudolf Diels, the young chief of the Gestapo. He moved with ease and confidence, yet unlike Putzi Hanfstaengl, who invaded a room, he entered unobtrusively, seeping in like a malevolent fog.
~ Erik Larson
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. J. M. Barrie "Dedication" Peter Pan 1904
~ Erik Larson
Her gayety seemed like jewels on a skull
~ Erik Larson
Murder was a fascination as always.
~ Erik Larson
Spade gestured, and his pale wrist caught my eye. His fourth and fifth fingers stood delicately apart from the other three. It was a hand so faultless, so unaware of itself and almost innocent, I felt his mythos transform into pathos. Here was the lost boy himself. I felt my heart squeeze a bit. This is a dangerous dude, I reminded myself.
~ Erika Schickel
I remembered this guy. Spade was the sixty-year-old version of the boys I had found irresistible in high school: brilliant, misunderstood, full of shit, and deeply sexy in a way that only I could appreciate. I felt a low gyration start in my hips that I hadn't felt in years.
~ Erika Schickel