Quotes About Mystery

And strange are the ways of deep emotion.

Romans 11:33–36:

Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.

Ah, the Devil Herself. We really do not know whether the Devil wears breeches or a skirt, now do we?

I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions.

If they veered left, it would feel to them as if they were sinking into the earth: the path would narrow as the ground around them rose up to their hips, then shoulders, then heads. The walls would turn from sod to stone, and it would seem as if they were walking inside a crag in a cliff. The sky would be reduced to a thin swath of blue, broken in parts by the branches of the trees that grew above them along the sides of this ancient channel.

this was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed.

Chris Bohjalian

I don't know why people have to die, Son. I don't think death was what God wanted. But it sure was part of somebody's plan. I believe God is big enough and powerful enough to use it. There's more going on here than we can see.

What if he is the one who brought her to me?

Randy held out the koosh. "What is it?" "I have no idea," Donna said. "Your asshole scrubber?

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

I thought it would be really cool to play a role where I go missing and people look for me and I'm in this other world.

I have had the same person show up in a few cities with flowers. A lovely gentleman who gave me a picture of himself. I came home, gave it to Ian, and said, 'If I go missing, here's the guy.'

It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.

I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

I try to mix the characters up and not be second guessed by the audience.

Everybody loves monsters.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.