Quotes About Mystery

When he plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—"If you were supposed to know, you'd know.

He writes mostly about crime, although if he can talk Óscar into it he'll do "color" features

Mexico is a cemetery for secrets.

No one knows how the chimp got the revolver.

the mystery of love bespeaks another mystery—the mystery of God. If we refuse to ascribe the name of God to the mystery of love, we shall remain in the throes of endless self-deception. Which means that melancholia cannot but be deeply, inherently religious. It has its human players and counterplayers, yet, in the end, it always comes down to one's personal experience of the mystery, the uncanniness of love. And there is nothing more uncanny than a love that has no knowable boundaries.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." —JALALUDDIN RUMI

sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.

Kestrel Call ME a CAB by Donald E. Westlake

Han shook his head. Long ago he had told himself that females - mammalian, reptilian, or some biological class yet to be discovered - were beyond his meager powers of comprehension. Better leave them to mystery, he'd often advised himself.

She said that one of the advantages of being ninety was that she could read a detective story again, only two weeks after she first read it, without any notion of which character was the villain.

The ways of Man are inscrutable. Man giveth, and Man taketh away. Blessed be the Name of Man (though Brother Chidiock Tichborne, who had a fine old name himself, had to admit that he did not know the name of his Man, nor of the Woman either).

The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!

Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different. No one, grown-up or child, got away with breaking the law in Idaville.

Then why were you

You'll fly like a stone kite," said Encyclopedia. "Nope, it's going to work," said Casper. "Buck Barkdull has flown—" "Nobody can fly!" screamed Encyclopedia. "Jump off the roof and you'll find out what an anchor does.

The boys reached the woods as night fell. "It's so dark in here I couldn't see Buck if he flew past my nose in a garbage truck," said Casper.

the magic worm pills for only five dollars!

There lived ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown

Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different.

Have you got an idea about this case, Leroy?" "No," mumbled Encyclopedia. Mrs. Brown looked hurt. She had come to expect her son to solve a case before dessert.

Donald J. Sobol

Donald J. Sobol

Howard Hughes was in serious trouble.