Quotes About Mystery

Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark.

If you mean slaves, you only remember what they allowed you to remember. Even if Davis Bend was really as humane as you believe, they kept their misery to themselves, kept it a mystery to you. I promise that's true. Think of it as a great gift, a mark of affection. Their protection of your memory.

How would you ever come to know God's name for that star? – You wouldn't, He holds it close, the boy said. It's a thing you'll never know. It's a lesson that sometimes we're meant to settle for ignorance. Right there's what mostly comes of knowledge [boy tips his chin at the battlefield]

Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.

A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things. http://diggingupthefuture.wordpress.com/

A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

but maybe life is like that - you never know when something that's been hidden is going to rise up and bite you, or glow with a golden hue.

What," asked Julian without preamble, "did Trelawny snatch from the funeral pyre at Viareggio?" The go-between replied, "Shelley's heart.

Dar te-ndragesc jivina de neinduplecat Chiar si-n raceala-n care sublim te-ai ferecat

That is the way God works. Without even a hint of warning, He speaks to ordinary people, on ordinary days.

Cuanto más vivo, y cuanto más cerca de Cristo camino, mayor es mi convicción de que él no se toma el tiempo de explicar el por qué. De modo que confiamos en él a lo largo de la vida sin la expectativa de que sea respondido el «por qué».

God not only moves in mysterious ways, He moves in mundane days.

Information is that which defies expectation.

Particles are constantly winking in and out of existence, like tiny Cheshire cats.

programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.

For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she's still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don't understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

I've met gibbering horrors from other universes, been psychically entangled with a serial killer fish goddess, stalked by zombies, imprisoned by a megalomaniac billionaire, and I've even survived the attention of the Auditors (when I was young, foolish, and didn't know any better). But I've never lost a classified file before, and I don't ever want there to be a first time. I force myself to sit down

The vampire has just realized she's in a meeting populated exclusively by spooks and people who go bump in the night.

the stacks keeps you on your toes. Besides which, there are rumours of ape-men living down here; I don't know how the rumours got started, but this place is more than somewhat creepy when you're on your own late at night.

The PM smiles, and for a moment I see a flickering vision where His face should be: an onion-skin Matryoshka doll of circular shark-toothed maws, lizard-man faces, and insectile hunger. "A word in my study if you don't mind. Right this way.

but on the ridgeline up by Magic Meadows there's a place where the trees are all flattened outwards in a circle and there's a scorched symbol in the dirt, kinda like a five-pointed star with an eye in the middle, like the Brotherhood

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

a man so wrapped in secrecy that his shadow doesn't have a high enough security clearance to stick to his heels.