Quotes About Mystery

as their eyes met she got that feeling again, that sensation of there being something huge between them, something she couldn't quite define, something her twenty-year-old self might have called 'passion' and her thirty-year-old self might have more cynically called 'chemistry'.

things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share. Every day brought an endless stream of new life.

There are so many secrets about our lives we'll never know.

Mummy!" Maddie toddled back into the kitchen, an expression of perplexed delight on her face. "Look!" She held up two copies of Good Night, Little Bear. Lyn said, "Fancy that!" and Maddie plunked down onto her bottom with both books in front of her, her head turning back and forth, as she flipped each page, intent on solving this mystery.

It was the not knowing. The not fucking knowing.

Aunt Connie killing the Munros is manifestly wrong. It was Alice.

I picked something with lots of sex, drugs and murder," Madeline had said, "so we have a lively discussion. Ideally there should be an argument." The

Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty

lavish, dark hair of hers over one shoulder to

The information was like a secret weapon hidden in her pocket, which she held in the palm of her hand, caressing its contours, considering its power.

It sometimes seemed so peculiar and wrong to her that you could be that intimate with someone, to go to sleep with him and wake up with him, to do really quite extraordinarily personal things together on a regular basis, and then, suddenly, you don't even know his telephone number, or where he's living or working, or what he did today or last week or last year.

It was like watching someone play the violin beautiffully. You couldn´t conceive how they did it.

happened," said Pam. She pointed at the big house next door with

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have, taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

They needed to stay secret to keep their power.

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share.

by something off in the distance and was strangely, almost

The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

Don't forget to tell everyone it's a secret.

You feel the same hum at a Cohen concert that you do at a church or a synagogue, a feeling that emanates from the realization that the words and tunes you're about to hear represent the best efforts we humans can make to capture the mysteries that surround us, and that by listening and closing your eyes and singing along, you, too can somehow transcend.

Something about you now I can't quite figure out Everything she does is beautiful Everything she does is right Cause it's you and me and all of the people With nothing to do, nothing to lose And it's you and me and all of the people And I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you.