Quotes About Mystery

Of course I believe in ghosts. I just don't think they'd waste their time haunting an Island where no one ever goes.

According to my sources," Megan says, which I'm pretty sure is code for I hacked into the police mainframe, but please don't tell my mom...

I'm the solution to a two-hundred-year-old

in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.

Four years ago my dad went on a mission. He didn't come home. No one knows what… happened." Then Zach looked at me and said the words I've always known but never dared to utter: "Somebody knows.

Is it true he killed a Turkish ambassador with a thong?" I wasn't sure if she was talking about the sandals or the panties, but

So what is it?" Angus asked, appearing at his brother's side and rubbing his hands together. In the dim light, his eyes seemed to glow. "Is it Hansel and Gretel?" "Can't be," Hamish told him. "We only have the one grenade launcher." "Right." Angus nodded as if Hamish had a most excellent point.

It was a nearly starless sky. Black clouds hung heavy overhead, blocking out the moon.

we saw a man walking in our midst who would have made James Bond feel insecure. Indiana Jones would have looked like a momma's boy compared to the man in the leather jacket with two days' growth of beard who walked to where my mother stood and then—horror of horrors—winked at her.

As I thought of Boston; as I heard the words "get her" one more time; as I realised that Macey hadn't been the only Gallagher Girl on the roof that day.

The embassy is not haunted. But I am.

They beat me to it." And that was when things really got weird. I mean, my mom had broken into Sub-level Two.

Hi again, Gallagher Girl.

I could slip quietly out into the world and never be seen again. But life is never like that, is it? Things keep happening until you die.

Rio stroked Nella's thigh again while he looked at her with eyes dark blue and unreadable. His lips quirked into a smile. "Damn," he said. "Did you all hear that? My girl's a princess.

Par le bois du Djinn où s'entasse de l'effroi Parle ! Bois du gin ou cent tasses de lait froid

The term gift designates events, apparitions, and things whose grandeur and graciousness remove them from practices of appropriation—from measurement, categorization, and seizure.

Miraba a los ojos de su interlocutor, pero no era a él a quien miraba. Es decir, más que mirar parecía estar buscando, con secreta y paciente astucia, ese otro ser que nos acompaña siempre y que únicamente sale a la superficie cuando estamos solos, para entregar ciertos mensajes, disolver ciertas frágiles certezas y dejarnos en el desamparo de inconfesables perplejidades...

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

They have eliminated Mrs Sullivan, Miss Henshaw and Mrs Philpott, for now at least

The Company knew all about poisons.

the drowned Enid Stibbins, Ernest's first wife

I had the weird sensation that I had stepped through a veil, and passed unwittingly from one realm into another …