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Quotes About Mystery

Even now, I don't know of any werewolves living in Asia—there are things over there that don't like us, and they can make their dislike fatal.
~ Patricia Briggs
After the third swallow, he opened his eyes, and they were night-dark velvet. He reached up and grasped Jesse's hand where it lay on his shoulder, but his eyes were on me. "Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?
~ Patricia Briggs
Mr. Francis hired a witch to make a zombie to kill me?
~ Patricia Briggs
Jesse sucked in her breath, and said, "It's a TARDIS." "A what?" asked Aiden. "Bigger on the inside than it is on the outside," Jesse said. She
~ Patricia Briggs
What are we hunting?" Anna's voice had lost the tautness of stress. "A treasure," said Tom. "The exact nature of which is a surprise.
~ Patricia Briggs
If I were a vampire, I think I'd only wear black or dark brown—to hide the stains.
~ Patricia Briggs
There is magic in places that are between: crossroads, thresholds, bridges.
~ Patricia Briggs
The Princess and the Goblin.
~ Patricia Briggs
Because I knew that Samuel—my Samuel who was at that very moment dressing in the backseat—would never stand by and watch a human get hurt. He was the only werewolf I knew who cared that much about mundane humans, just because they were mundane humans
~ Patricia Briggs
SILVERLESS, DE-MAGICKED, AND VOWING NEVER TO PLAY word one-upmanship—or even Scrabble for that matter—with either Adam or Asil (What exactly was a quicquidlibet, anyway?)
~ Patricia Briggs
Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scrawled across it.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!
~ Patricia C. Wrede
DEEP IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST, in a neat gray house with a wide porch and a red roof, lived the witch Morwen and her nine cats. The cats were named Murgatroyd, Fiddlesticks, Miss Eliza Tudor, Scorn, Jasmine, Trouble, Jasper Darlington Higgins IV, Chaos, and Aunt Ophelia, and not one of them looked anything like a witch's cat.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Patricia C. Wrede
~ Unknown
Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered
~ Patricia Highsmith
My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space.
~ Patricia Highsmith
What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Kendall had asked about her father.
~ Unknown
If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe.
~ Unknown
there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fog-bound sea the water is a color for which there is no name.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
Smith's eyes traced
~ Unknown
People found it haunting, enthralling, enchanting. Perhaps that's why it eventually became known as the
~ Unknown