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Quotes About Mystery

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
~ Laurence Sterne
The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
Have you ever seen a woman canter over the hills in the twilight? Scandal sheets are no match for atavism.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Unübersetzbar. Du weißt, Niederländisch ist eine Geheimsprache, die dazu bestimmt ist andere auszuschließen.
~ Cees Nooteboom
We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Oni oduzimaju dah jedno drugome" bilo bi najpribližnije, ali pošto njega ve? znamo, a nju ne o?ekujemo ovde, ne?emo sa time oti?i daleko. Oni se dobro znaju, to je jasno. Ono što niko ne može da vidi jesu krila koja on crta iza nje, krila an?ela koga nikada ne?e zboraviti.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Everything would work out and she wouldn't have to tell Dane that the box full of ancient ivory penises was roaming freely about Kirkall Hall.
~ Celeste Bradley
Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.
~ Celeste Ng
Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there.
~ Celeste Ng
Beautiful women. The world, at that time, was full of them, all of them furiously incandescent like dying stars.
~ Celeste Ng
She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.
~ Celeste Ng
a haze of formless, pervasive emotion, nothing she could grasp, but full of looming thoughts that appeared from nowhere, startling her, then receded into whiteness again before she was even sure what she had seen.
~ Celeste Ng
It was like a landscape they could not see all at once; it was like the sky at night, which turned and turned so they couldn't find its edges. It would always feel too big.
~ Celeste Ng
But I didn't know where she was going, Hannah whispers into the dark. I didn't know she was really going anywhere.
~ Celeste Ng
Lydia is dead.
~ Celeste Ng
Later, when Moody saw the finished photos, he thought at first that Pearl looked like a delicate fossil, something caught for millennia in the skeleton belly of a prehistoric beast. Then he thought she looked like an angel resting with her wings spread out behind her. And then, after a moment, she looked simply like a girl asleep in a lush green bed, waiting for her lover to lie down beside her.
~ Celeste Ng
The closed curtains glow like a blank television screen.
~ Celeste Ng
So many lives she would never know all unfolding behind those doors.
~ Celeste Ng
Then, as they cross the street back toward the dorm, Bird sees it on the ground: spray-painted, blood-red against the asphalt, right in the center of the intersection. The size of a car, impossible to miss. A heart, he realizes, just like the banner in Brooklyn. And circling it this time, a ring of words. bring back our missing hearts.
~ Celeste Ng
Who shall compass or fathom God's thought profound? We can but praise, for we may not understand; But there's no more beautiful riddle the whole world round Than is hid in this heap of dust I hold in my hand.
~ Celia Thaxter
Prova a dire ai mortali queste cose che sai.
~ Cesare Pavese
Qué curioso! Turín es más grande de noche que de día.
~ Cesare Pavese
You, instinctively, as a girl, have very, uh, strange, supernatural, magical powers that we don't understand.
~ Chad Eastham