Quotes About Mystery

Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?

Carol J. Perry

There's a period in every case when I feel really confused. It's usually from right after I'm hired until I find out who did it.

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.

He looks me right in the eye, and all of a sudden I want to kiss him. [...] I almost take a step forward, there's that kind of draw. It's almost spiritual. Does he feel it too? He looks at me like he does.

The deep doesn't bother swallowing just anybody. The sea takes the extraordinary and leaves the rest be

some sort of havey-cavey business where

Michael and Jo Dee had given up long ago. They had brought the bottle and clue along and were playing "drop the mystery clue in the bottle." As far as Michele was concerned, they might as well drop it back in the ocean.

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.

And she smiles and she utters unearthly things and she utters not in any known language, in stars and pain, pulque she says I am devouring time and the earth

If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today, You'd better go in disguise. For every bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

If she dreamed, she did not remember when she awoke.

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

Well, sometimes you just want to go where it's dark, you know?

I wish there were a way for me to ask about a red ladle but it's not a normal question

All of life is slightly dependent on magic. So is death.

Otherwise you might have an old Irish slag knocking at your door in the wee hours.

Did you kill me yet?" "Eat your fucking ice cream.

Most people like cheap mysteries and most people have never heard of Paula Fox or Hannah

You are a woman and I am a man and we belong in the dark together

You're not a good killer," he says. "Obviously.

The Uber driver is unassuming and blank and I wouldn't be surprised if he kills us all.