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Quotes About Mystery

A pair of vampires with clipboards walk into the back of a church in time for evening mass.
~ Charles Stross
Startled, she reached into the bag again. Another fortune cookie, another message: I MADE A BANDAGE BUT YOU EATED IT.
~ Charles Stross
Widespread intelligence amplification doesn't lead to widespread rational behavior. New religions and mystery cults explode across the planet; much of the Net is unusable, flattened by successive semiotic jihads.
~ Charles Stross
If an ancient horror invites you into its limousine at gunpoint—
~ Charles Stross
Nicholas was already tall for his age, dark unruly hair and dark eyes, although in the photograph you couldn't tell if they were brown or dark blue.
~ Charles Todd
What could have been Henry Cutter's
~ Charles Todd
Charles Todd
~ without it.
and left his bicycle well hidden behind the stone wall
~ Charles Todd
The revolver was swifter and the darkness came faster. Max Hume had known what he was about.
~ Charles Todd
Poetry is the language of the gods.
~ Charles Upton
By the time we made our way through the crowded tables and reached the hotel lobby, the two men were nowhere to be seen. Lucy pressed on to the front entrance, and we followed. On the steps in front of the hotel, we looked across the boulevard to a vast green expanse of trees, shrubs, and lawns. There was still no sign of the two men. We looked up and down the wide pavement, again without seeing either Dietrich or Richter
~ Charles Veley
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Why? She asked in a confused whisper. Out of all the women in the world, why did you choose this mortal? Because fate drove me to you.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
How do you manage to make me feel like this?' he asked her in a low, thickened voice. 'You give me nothing, absolutely nothing, yet I can't stop wanting you.' His hand reached out, almost pleadingly, to touch her arm. 'Selina ...' -Ashley Dent
~ Charlotte Lamb
Shandy. Have you begun your Ptolemaic
~ Charlotte MacLeod
Charlotte MacLeod
~ hunt the slipper
She sipped her sirupy stimulant with sibylline susurrations.
~ Charlotte MacLeod
I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret, or a sandwich.
~ Chelsea Handler
two by six Joyce below the floor boards.
~ Chet Cunningham
Nothing puzzles God
~ Chinua Achebe
That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.
~ Chinua Achebe
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with everyday herbs.
~ Chinua Achebe
Do your people have a proverb about a man looking for something inside the bag of a man looking for something?
~ Chinua Achebe