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Quotes About Mystery

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.
~ Jane Yolen
Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet
~ Janet Chapman
Even Tidewater's computer gurus hadn't been able to trace the origin of his messages.
~ Janet Chapman
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
~ Janet Evanovich
What was being weighed on the scales of the night
~ Janet Finch
Distance looks our way; the godwits vanish towards another summer and none knows where he will lie down at night.
~ Janet Frame
There was something of the wildwood in the man who came and went illusive as moonlight moving through the branches.
~ Janet Lee Carey
The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it is merely a restatement of the mystery—and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.
~ Janet Malcolm
It is easy to mislead people into thinking that they can move themselves to the next stage by just ... setting their mind to it. Nothing could be further from the truth. The journey of faith is our personal journey, and movement on the journey is the place of mystery, holy ground. Moving from one stage to another reverences timing. It involves bringing our response in sync with God's grace in our lives. God does not make us move. God's grace allows us to move.
~ Janet O. Hagberg
SMITH TREASURE," she read softly. "It was the kids, right? That's what they were trying to say. In the house. Everywhere. The SMITH TREASURE was the kids.
~ Janet S. Anderson
Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.
~ Janet Taylor Lisle
How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn't know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.
~ Janette Oke
I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.
~ Janette Rallison
What comes before and after we know not.
~ Janette Turner Hospital
When you think of yourself as lucky, you notice all the good things in your life. You see all the connections between what you do and what happens next. You watch the amazing, mysterious, coincidental ways the world works, and you will be awestruck" -Aunt Jenny
~ Janice Erlbaum
We're the Camp Club Girls, remember!" "Supersleuths forever!" Kate shouted with glee. "Supersleuths forever!" Sydney echoed. She then looked at Kate with a twinkle in her eyes, and together they added one last line, just for fun! "Rumor Free! You and Me!
~ Janice Hanna
He grinned widely, and James saw that blood was dripping from his fangs.
~ Janice Harrell
Out beyond houses and mailboxes, roads and bridges, a person can see a realm that exists alongside this world in which we humans live.
~ Janisse Ray
The key line is "You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
~ Jann S. Wenner
The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac.
~ Jardine Libaire
You tell me you love me, but I'm not sure you know what love is, or how fast it flies, or how much it resembles a UFO, or what kind of weapon you'd use to shoot it down.
~ Jarod Kintz
You and I have a love so secret that not even you know about it. But first, let me introduce myself.
~ Jarod Kintz
Když se jen dotkneš ruky mé a dla? tvá lehce padne do mé, struny, o kterých nevíme, ozvou se tiše, pov?domé.
~ Jaroslav Seifert
První sny dívek, které jsou zamilovány nejd?ív jen do lásky, bývají jako tolik v?cí na sv?t? tajemn?jší než tajemství zpov?dní! Nikdo se o nich nedozví, protože nejsou ješt? vymyšlena slova tak cudná a tak vášnivá zárov??.
~ Jaroslav Seifert