Quotes About Mystery

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

Beyond the black is the light.

There are some things people see in toilets that they wish they hadn't. What Trevor Hawkins sees might even cost him his life.

Rob Lloyd Jones

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.

Falling in love with Renée was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-along. She would wake up in the middle of the night and say things like "What if Bad Bad Leroy Brown was a girl?" or "Why don't they have commercials for salt like they do for milk?" Then she would fall back to sleep, while I would lie awake and give thanks for this alien creature beside whom I rested.

The Rubber Soul woman stays up late drinking wine on her rug after midnight, until it's time for bed. She speaks languages he can't translate. She's not impressed by the Beatle charm—when you say she's looking good, she acts as if it's understood. She's cool. She makes the Rubber Soul man feel like a real nowhere boy.

I was looking for glimmers of light, but I only wanted to go looking for them in the hills where the dead spirits hung out.

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next generation.

of the Wild West's London engagement on the evening of October 31.

Unless some long-lost trove of letters or ' a forgotten diary turns up, I believe that we probably .now know.all

McPherson. It was from William F. Cody. I pried open the lid, and a very unpleasant

In every moment, we're sailing on oceans where wonders are not just the exception; they are the rule.

Our minds perform magic all the time. (p. 212)

Hand could never really grasp it.

The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.

Colonel Adamski,' said Margaret. 'I have to ask you whether you take milk?' 'No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

I conned the musty stock. At the back of the shop . . . . glimmered the façade of an enormous dolls' house. I wanted it at once.

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.