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Quotes About Sinister

There were sinister aspects o magic, and what you brought into this world was your responsibility, to deal with forever more.
~ Alice Hoffman
Il y avait derrière cette voix toute une histoire de nuits sombres, quelque chose d'exquis, quelque chose de dangereux.
~ Alice McDermott
There's always something dark about a man with money
~ Joe Abercrombie
Can't we talk about sex or murder?" asked Johnny.
~ E. Lockhart
There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil.
~ Harry Shearer
Not until after supper were the Hardys able to drive out to the Batter estate. The high, gabled mansion loomed starkly against the sky, silvered by moonlight. A broken porch rail and dark, blank windows gave it a sinister look. "Spooky-looking layout," Joe muttered. "It's a cinch no one's taking care of the place.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
It's only in dreams that I am so sinister.
~ Franz Kafka
complicated women— fearful at heart but evil in deed.
~ Luanne Rice
You might call IT the Boss." Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. "IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Cabello rubio, tez pálida, demoníacas cejas angulares, una sonrisa cruel con un hoyuelo cautivador. Pérfida, infinitamente deseable, me atraía hacia ella como hacia la muerte.
~ Anais Nin
The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…
~ Andy Warhol
For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.
~ Sandra Newman
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green.
~ Sax Rohmer
Alrededor todo era rojo, como el escenario de una terrible tragedia de venganza donde la sangre se convierte en eco de la sangre
~ John Connolly
Both men looked cadaverous and sinister as the single dim light hanging from the ceiling cast dark shadows across their features.
~ John Day
People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.
~ Edward Gorey
By a similar operation, the write-up of Wholesome Fresh moved me almost to tears. Supposedly open 24 hours, Wholesome Fresh offers pretty much everything your heart desires. Hearty sandwiches. Hot dishes. Sushi. Chocolate Sauce. Paprika. Napkins. There it was, finally on display: the gap between the idea that Wholesome Fresh promulgated about itself, in a naïve or sinister way, and what it felt like to actually be there. What a relief to see it articulated!
~ Elif Batuman
According to the artichoke theory, man had some inner essence, or "heart"; according to the onion theory, once you had unwrapped all the layers of society off of man, there was nothing there. Seen from this perspective, the idea of an onion masquerading as an artichoke seemed sinister, even sociopathic.
~ Elif Batuman
at the bottom of every story, there's always something monstrous. Thrashing about in the mud.
~ Fred Vargas
There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.
~ Chelsea Cain
For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
~ Fiona McIntosh
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe