Quotes About Mystery

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened.

Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

HAVE FOUND HIM STOP, it read. WILL YOU COME BACK QUERY ROGER.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

There is very seldom any true secret.

Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot. Teach me to hear the mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Decide what this is about Write a second verse yourself

The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word saucepan in it several times...

Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?

Aidan was fascinated by Mr. Stock's hat. Perhaps it had once been a trilby sort of thing. It may once hace even been a definite color. Now it was more like something that had grown - like a fungus - on Mr. Stock's head, so mashed and used and rammed down by earthy hands that you could have thought it was a mushroom that had accidentally grown into a sort of gnome-hat. It had a slightly domed top and a floppy edge. And a definite smell

Nobody's safe in a wizard's house.

How does she keep it up? How can Miss Hodge be a teacher and not use witchcraft at all? I use it all the time. How else can I have eyes in the back of my head?' 'One of the great mysteries of our time,' Chrestomanci agreed.

Why am I holding a dog full of angels?

I was born to strange sights. Things invisible to see . . . I know where all past years are, and who cleft the Devil's foot.

horrible horseless carriage. The invisible watchers

Then the geese replaced themselves with six pigs and vanished.

One of the stars came unstuck from the firmament and darted in a white streak down the sky...Michael was stalking the star with soft steps, both arms out to catch it.

Diana Wynne Jones

He was standing holding the door to the stairs open with an arm that was entirely hidden inside an immense blue-and-silver sleeve. His feet, on the bottom stair, were standing inside the top half of a gigantic blue-and-silver jacket. Howl's other arm did not come anywhere near the other huge sleeve. Sophie could see that arm in outline, making bulging gestures under a vast frill of collar. Behind Howl, the stairs were full of blue-and-silver suit trailing back all the way to his bedroom.

But what call has he to be walking around in a charmed suit?

Nobody's safe in a wizard's house," Calcifer said feelingly.

Sophie began to feel that Wizard Howl and the Witch of the Waste should get together.