Quotes About Mystery

Elizabeth Peters

I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.

All these lives, she said. All the stories we never know. (125)

It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.

And there they were, arrived; and it was San Salvatore; and their suit-cases were waiting for them; and they had not been murdered.

To me this out-of-the way corner was always a wonderful and a mysterious place, where my castles in the air stood close together in radiant rows, and where the strangest and most splendid adventures befell me; for the hours I passed in it and the people I met in it were all enchanted.

Alteri e distaccati, eternamente rapiti in remote, misteriose meditazioni, [i gatti] si concedono all'altrui adorazione ed è difficile che diano qualcosa in cambio. Eccetto le fusa.

A murdered author was a marketing hook to die for. Jane

Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see.

My raven," she would say, reaching up and rippling it like cloth, "my darkness, my silky child, my night river

Close attention to mollusks and frigate birds and wolves makes us aware not only of our own human identity but also of how much more there is, an assertion of our imperfect hunger for mystery. "Without mystery life shrinks," wrote biologist Edward O. Wilson. "The completely known is a numbing void to all active minds.

TENTH • Each pair in attendance will now receive an envelope containing a set of clues. No two sets of clues are alike. It is not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts.

Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!

From the side window smoke could be seen rising from the Westing house, but Sydelle Pulaski did not notice.

The lodging arrangements had certainly been inspired, though whether by an angel or an imp remained to be seen.

She looked from his face into the face of the dead man. She knew he was dead. She also knew that the dead speak, often in thunder.

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles, And he was comforted and entertained, and fell asleep again readily, feeling that all was well with a world he had always know to be peculiar and perverse.

Ellis Peters

I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect 'woman of mystery' is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

strange shape appeared, moving deliberately across a nearby section of their old floe.

precious little had been learned about conditions in these unfrequented waters.