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Quotes About Mystery

Every place is the same place in the dark.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The first rule of Flunk Klub, Aardvark said, is you don't talk about Flunk Klub.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This, and the club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the center of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tyler never knew his father.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The candelabras.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Her body continued to be the black box of a jetliner that had crashed with no survivors.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Monster Girl Steals Festive Holiday Bird
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tyler lies back and asks, If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling, and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Por favor, enséñenme una sola cosa en el mundo que sea lo que parece.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
the greatest proof of love's power is that it couldn't be reduced to words.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Thanks, Darth Obvious. Or is it Emperor Palpable?
~ Chuck Wendig
I don't know what I'm doing here, either. I suspect that the moment I have it figured out, I'll probably die half a second later.
~ Chuck Wendig
and she saw another bit of ink, one she didn't recognize: a sword and a hammer encircled by a snake. She didn't know what it meant, exactly, but it was probably more Nazi white-guy shit, because it was always Nazi white-guy shit.
~ Chuck Wendig
Plot is like Soylent Green: it's made of people.
~ Chuck Wendig
Palpatine felt that the universe beyond the edges of our maps was where his power came from. Over the many years he, with our aid, sent men and women beyond known space. They built labs and communication stations on distant moons, asteroids, out there in the wilds. We must follow them. Retreat from the galaxy. Go out beyond the veil of stars. We must seek the source of the dark side like a man looking for a wellspring of water.
~ Chuck Wendig
A fully-realized and known world is also a boring world. Mystery, alongside conflict, is another of those  vital vittles that feeds the reader and keeps them hooked. Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason, I say -- so leave lots of questions.
~ Chuck Wendig
Honestly, you ask me, I think it's aliens," she said, fast putting an end to her moment as the voice of sanity.
~ Chuck Wendig
When you believe in magic, it is easy to see all the universe as evidence of it.)
~ Chuck Wendig
Of course it's a wizard van.
~ Chuck Wendig
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~ Chuck Wendig
cast a dark shadow on the
~ Chuck Wendig