Quotes About Mystery

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

What is invisible that we cannot see, it is also invisible within us, and we connect with it.

He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.

It was a whole world, his mouth, a whole unsuspected world, and kissing him occasioned the same sense of discovery as sliding a clear drop of plain tap water under a microscope and divining whole schools of fantastic fibrillose creatures, or pointing a telescope at a patch of sky pitch-dark to the naked eye and lo, it is spattered with stars.

there is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know.

The romances between strangers are somewhere between inaccessible and incomprehensible to other people...

To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known.

It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how little you had ever known- as if progressive intimacy didn't involve becoming more perceptive, but growing only more perfectly ignorant.

Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

St. Brigid's Island perched like a jagged accident above the water, all grass and rock, no beach to ease the passage of a boat, no harbor to shelter it once there. Twelve miles west of Ireland, at times nearly impossible to get to and just as deadly to try to leave. It was the whim of the wind and the swelling sea that determined who landed there and who was let go.

Honestly, are there any other words in the whole damned English language quite as seductive as, 'the circus is in town'?

Anol shedom Anol sheh lay konnah ve-um (shaddai)

I slide down between the sheets beside him, like a secret letter slipped into the safety of an envelope. And dream of ancient places, where everyone is young.

Something... activated... by psychic power. Do I have to explain weaponry, or can you manage that alone?' - Gabriel

It's been ten years since Ellie Mack disappeared, a fifteen year old fro north London, disappeared on her way to the library.

Maybe it was too much of a coincidence to be a purely coincidence.

But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing.

And by the way"—she looks up suddenly—"I've read every single Agatha Christie novel ever published. Twice. So I might even be quite useful.

People could look and see just a man, but in the same glance, the answer to all their problems.

Yes. I agree. We are done here. I am sorry to have upset you, Miss Jones. But what we mustn't forget, whatever the truth of this situation, a young woman was killed in that house. Violently killed. This must remain the focus and I will keep making people cry for as long as it takes to find out who did it and why.

And she also said that Phoebe was going out with Leo's (the sisters' dad) little brother when she died but also people thought she might have been going out with Leo too even though he was four years older than her! And also that Phoebe is Tyler's mum's sister! So the girl on the bench is actually Tyler's aunt.

Seems strange,' he continues. 'A girl you barely know, yet you have selfies with her on your phone and then she's cuddling up to you at the bus stop like she's your best friend.

My theory, currently, is that this is someone who has known something all along whilst remaining in the shadows. Someone who knows what happened to Tallulah and Zach.