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Quotes About Mystery

open with my knife. Inside, carefully wrapped
~ Cheryl Strayed
It seemed like such a small thing and such a tremendous thing at once, like a secret I'd always tell myself, though I didn't know the meaning of it just yet.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I suppose this is what I mean when I say we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives.
~ Cheryl Strayed
To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life—like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
~ Cheryl Strayed
That mystery is not the curse of our existence; it's the wonder. It's what people are talking about when they talk about the circle of life that we're all part of whether we sign up to be or not—the living, the dead, those being born right this moment, and the others who are fading out.
~ Cheryl Strayed
mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.
~ Cheryl Strayed
It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
~ Cheryl Strayed
he found nothing but a matchbook from a motel in Liberal, Kansas.
~ Chet Williamson
Being seen through, with wisdom and detachment. And being found, not to have a big booger hanging out of his nose, but to be of some mysterious value.
~ Chet Williamson
We can venture forth into the great primordial stone swamp." "Interesting return address." She puckered up her face. "Better than writing Washington, D.C., on your letters.
~ Chet Williamson
He looked out at the dark of night seeking rumors of the moon.
~ Chet Williamson
know, it's kinda nice to have some people in here who died of natural causes. Every once in a while, an inexplicable murder can brighten your day. But enough is enough, you know what I mean?
~ Chet Williamson
Don, Corrine, and everyone else on the island was trapped here with a murderer who didn't just kill but committed unspeakable acts. Like decapitating a man, biting chunks out of people, beating a man until he was unrecognizable. For the duration of the Split, neither the killer nor his potential victims could get away from each other, and the local police had no idea who the murderer was. Otherwise, everything was great.
~ Chet Williamson
Meanwhile, halfway across the Atlantic, something awakened in the cargo hold of a freighter bound for Europe. It smiled like an old man who'd just proved once again that his bowels still worked.
~ Chet Williamson
There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.
~ Chet Williamson
Dark is dark in the darkness.
~ Chet Williamson
Good! Brad thought. Great! I can see the headline now: MORGANTOWN MYSTERY DISEASE FELLS ALL CHILDREN, BUT TOLL PALES IN COMPARISON WITH BLACK DEATH. CDC OFFICIALS GREATLY RELIEVED!
~ Chet Williamson
I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha
~ Chetan Bhagat
Sometimes it is hard to explain why you find a person beautiful.
~ Chetan Bhagat
It is said that the first storyteller crept at night to listen to the gods talking in their sleep — so each tale collected contained the breath of gods.
~ Author Unknown
Morning breaks the mystery of night with her delicately blazing pastel light.
~ Terri Guillemets
Tetragram is a four-letter word.
~ The Dictionary
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
~ William Shakespeare
What golden spider warmed himself and spun This web that is the flesh upon your bones...
~ Mark Van Doren, 1932