Quotes About Mystery

Not every case requires him to kill, but when he does, he kills known murderers whom the law will not touch or the courts acquit for one reason or another. Even though he is supported by a formidable organization with deep resources, which remains a mystery to him, his fingerprints have been removed to protect him. It's better to leave no prints behind.

The guy was lying on his back, mostly in shadow, with only the lower half of his body revealed in the dirty-red light, and at first Ken and Teel didn't realize what a horror they'd stumbled across. But when he knelt beside the corpse, Ken was shocked to see that the man's gut had been

by woods beyond the yard.

something of you, but please believe me, I didn't come to warn you that Beezo is on your doorstep. He

That Thursday afternoon, August 26, Vince Nasco drove to Johnny The Wire Santini's place in San Clemente to pick up the past week's report, which was when he learned of the murder of Ted Hockney in Santa Barbara the previous evening. The condition of the corpse, especially the missing eyes, linked it to The Outsider. Johnny had also ascertained that the NSA had quietly assumed jurisdiction in the case, which convinced Vince it was related to the Banodyne fugitives

Shivering pleasantly, Vince plucked the car keys off the floor where the dead man had dropped them, went into the garage, and opened the Cadillac's trunk, being careful not to touch any surface on which he might leave a clear fingerprint. The trunk was empty. Good. He carried Weatherby's corpse out of the laundry room, put it in the trunk, closed and locked the lid

The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts.

for whom arrest warrants were outstanding. He sought the name Nathan Palmer—and began to make a list of curious facts.

NOT DEAD A chill swept down her back.

Just then he gets a text message from Ace of Diamonds with a destination. He

piece of dark cloth draped over the

Sometimes the vastness of creation filled Jeffy less with a sense of wonder than with reverent dread

She believed in pursuing the truth of things rather than living in the pleasure of ignorance, and never before had a mystery as abstruse as this challenged her.

Katie says, "What do you know that I don't?

You could make yourself a little crazy, even certifiable, if you insisted that life always proceed according to some this-because-that system of logic. Occasionally you had to accept the inexplicable.

but as the dead

damned might call jealously to the living. Three more shots follow the first three.

About sixty feet ahead, Chang ran along a surfline of gray shadows, where the waves of light dissolved against the shore of night.

Those in the Mysterium had different views about to whom and when the truth of them should be revealed. Their

Life can sometimes seem hopelessly complex, unpredictable, chaotic. Then a strange order makes itself known.

Which would not surprise me. But a role in what?

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our knowledge." He realized that he was

it contains a zippered pouch holding forty thousand dollars in hundreds and twenties.

Charles Mainway