Quotes About Mystery

Every man likes to think there's a part of his nature that remains untamed and unsubdued." "You know all about men, do you?" he asked with an edge of mockery. "Mr. Ransom, the male sex has ceased to be a mystery ever since my first course in practical anatomy, which included the dissection of a cadaver.

Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

If you have enough unanswered questions, you have a certifiable mystery, and those are impossible to resist.

Owen, however, saw past Luna's ordinary armor. He recognized a feral quality in her. He saw a girl roiling with secrets. And he would have paid good money to know a few of them.

Owen. Look at me," Amy said. Owen opened the door. "Piece of advice," he said, keeping his back to Amy. "Don't get into bed with men you suspect of murder.

How common is it for someone to be shot in broad daylight without a single witness?" "Not common," Burns said. "But the cemetery wasn't a heavily trafficked area.

While doing biology, she had begun to believe in a sort of witchcraft.

Watercress. Jesus. He knew every gun that had ever been manufactured. Every hold in every martial art. This was beyond him. What the fuck was watercress?

They had a fabulous sex life. Drake was an attentive, tender lover who took his time in pleasing her. But every once in a while something in him changed and she caught a glimpse of the truly dangerous man he really was. She hadn't tamed him, not one bit. He just chose to show her a tender side he said he'd only discovered with her. But sometimes the tiger in him growled and clawed its way to the surface. And then the sex was incandescent.

The sound of a boot heel striking her hardwood floor. The darkness coalesced, gained an outline. A tall, broad-shouldered figure dressed in black stepped forward. A deep voice said, "I won't let you go to Worontzoff's house, Charity.

Death didn't miss you because

To live sacred lives requires that we live at the edge of what we do not know. —Anne Hillman

Why had they taken her car?

All of the lightest stable quarks and leptons have heavier replicas. No one knows why they are there, or what they are good for. When physicists first realized that the muon, a particle first seen in cosmic rays, was nothing other than a heavier version of the electron (200 times heavier), the physicist I.I. Rabi asked, "Who ordered that?

it was not scientists, but a reporter—Carlos Byars of the Houston Chronicle—who first made the connection. After listening to Hildebrand present the Arizona group's research at a scientific meeting, Byars told him about Penfield's earlier discovery of a potential impact crater—helping the scientists bring the mystery of the missing crater to its remarkably satisfying conclusion.

So, in a sense, looking under the lamppost for dark matter is appropriate.

Why should we have perfect senses that can directly perceive everything? The big lesson of physics over the centuries is how much is hidden from our view. From

Anita approached their target. Deon Simpson couldn't keep his focus on his mistress as Anita got closer. Jocelyn watched his dark eyes drift from his date's face to Anita's curvy form. She hadn't worn stockings, and her brown skin was smooth and supple, glimpses of it flashing from the slit in her short skirt as she walked. Simpson's eyes flitted back to the mistress, then once more to Anita. When

Darkness surrounded me, a complete absence of light that left me shaking inside. No. It wasn't the darkness that had me shaking. It was him. I could feel him, even if I could not see him. Oh yes, I could feel him. In every pore of my body, every nerve ending I owned, I could feel him. 

I'm letting this Rebecca mystery make my mind run wild. Actually, my whole life feels like it's running wild whereas only weeks before it was calm and uneventful. I'm standing on a high-rise ledge and walking the edge, and while there is fear and apprehension, there is also a high I can only call an adrenaline rush that I crave more and more each day.

He's a tall drink of poison

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her, she's become such a part of my life that no matter how I fight it, or her, she's in my blood—a part of why I exist. Yet so is Rebecca. I don't understand it, and I do not like things that I don't understand.