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Quotes About Mystery

The human heart has hidden treasures,In secret kept, in silence sealed.
~ Charlotte Bronte
A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever.
~ Charlotte Chandler
The man was an enigma. One minute he was looking at her as though he would kiss her senseless, the next he refused to even talk to her, much less look at her.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
He hadn't lived until he'd discovered Isabella, and the fact that he had somehow managed to give his heart to a person he didn't truly know still baffled him. But
~ Charlotte Featherstone
narthex. Don't worry; my assistant will see
~ Charlotte Hughes
One could not see them without feeling it was the first chapter of a novel.
~ Charlotte Mary Yonge
before I die I want to see The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes
~ Charlotte Mew
But first I want your life: - before I die I want to see The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes There is nothing gay or green there for my gathering, it may be, Yet on brown fields there lies A haunting purple bloom: is there not something in grey skies And in grey sea? I want what world there is behind your eyes,
~ Charlotte Mew
I want to see the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes.
~ Charlotte Mew
There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I often wonder if I could see her out of all the windows at once. But, turn as fast as I can, I can only see out of one at one time. And though I always see her, she may be able to creep faster than I can turn! I have watched her sometimes away off in the open country, creeping as fast as a cloud shadow in a high wind.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The first "young man" symbolizes "saving life and losing it," the second "losing life to save it." At this stage in the story, however, without knowing the end, the episode of the young man represents a mystery. All we know is that everything has gone sour.
~ Ched Myers
Gretchen's eyes blazed at Henry. 'Don't ever think you can know what I'll do
~ Chelsea Cain
His father is hinky, she said with a sigh. And by hinky she meant a drug kingpin .
~ Chelsea Cain
The Bermuda Triangle coughs up myths like a consumptive asthmatic. Missing vessels are blamed on aliens. Atlantis. Time rifts. Ghost ships. Magnetic anomalies. Methane eruptions. People go mad. People lose their minds. Sometimes I think I've been in the Bermuda Triangle my whole life.
~ Chelsea Cain
one. And I hid it. And Mia Turner found it because they
~ Chelsea Cain
Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it.
~ Chelsea Cain
Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...
~ Chelsea Cain
The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could've been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.
~ Cherie Priest
Why X?" Libby asked. "Because X is the most mysterious letter," May told her. "And things with X's in them are pretty cool.
~ Cherie Priest
I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk."
~ Cherie Priest
You know, everything's a ghost story, eventually.
~ Cherie Priest