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Quotes About Mystery

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~ Marlon James
When I finally die, at the hand of the Duolingon, how many runes will you have to write each night to stop me from coming for you?
~ Marlon James
Listen. Dead people never stop talking. Maybe because death is not death at all, just a detention after school. You know where you're coming from and you're always returning from it. You know where you're going though you never seem to get there and you're just dead. Dead.
~ Marlon James
I admire that a woman can do people like a man. You just get up one day and gone. No drums, no pigeons, no note, no word, no nothing.
~ Marlon James
We knew you were gone. We figured out it was something problematic. But mum was the word." According to Margie Pielsticker, "All of a sudden she was gone. We were told that she was at home, sick. No one knew why. Those were the years when you didn't talk about mental illness.
~ Unknown
She watched Malachy curl his long fingers around a lock of Layla's straight hair, gently caressing it as he mused on the origins of stars. The young astronomer knew that in Aristotelian times the word 'comet' meant "the length of luminous hair," but the word eventually changed to signify the orbiting streak that sometimes, just sometimes, flies a little too close to the sun.
~ Unknown
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
~ Marsilio Ficino
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
~ Marston Morse
It's a mystery to me why extraordinary young women insist that they're normal.
~ Unknown
He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits." "Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.
~ Unknown
La morte ha tante facce, è una presenza anche quando non lascia dietro di se un corpo inerte.
~ Unknown
Whether she knew it then or not, she would bore into her own interior, confronting an unknown as wild and uncertain as any new world a missionary had seen. A place as rare as Noah's.
~ Unknown
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance
~ Martha Graham
Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.
~ Martha Grimes
them. "Looking up an old mystery?" he'd asked.
~ Unknown
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
~ Martha Stout
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.
~ Martha Wells
I had archives of everything that had happened since I hacked my governor module, but I hadn't had as much relevant experience in that time. But what I did have were thousands of hours of category mystery media, so I had a lot of theoretical knowledge that was possibly anywhere from 60 to 70 percent inaccurate shit.
~ Martha Wells
In a voice soft and deep as night, she said, "Where is he?" Moon's breath caught in his chest. Leaving, he thought, turning for the door. He would have made it, but Stone was fast even as a groundling, and caught his wrist.
~ Martha Wells
Where the fuck was TranRollinHyfa?
~ Martha Wells
It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.
~ Martha Wells
I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.
~ Martha Wells
But they were humans—who knows why they did anything?
~ Martha Wells
va savoir ce qu'il se passe dans la tête d'un bot", a répondu Wilken avec un regard en coin dans ma direction. J'ai gardé les yeux rivés devant moi.
~ Martha Wells