Quotes About Mystery

Collin increased his own speed, tailing his doppelganger from about fifteen paces behind. The impossibility of the situation seemed like an absurd thing to think about right now as he spied on himself walking to work in the rain, yet nothing else entered his mind. It couldn't be impossible

Who was that? What's the White Room?" he said, panic rising again. "What is this place?" "This is the Corridor.

There's more to life than what you can see. You were born to this world, but you're meant for another.

A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present. Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery—as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.

As it grew closer, they could see that it was a woman arms outstretched, long black hair billowing behind as she spiralled toward them.

Electron microscopes let us wander the remote universe of our own cells.

Puhpowee, she explained, translates as "the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight." As a biologist, I was stunned that such a word existed. In all its technical vocabulary, Western science has no such term, no words to hold this mystery. You'd think that biologists, of all people, would have words for life. But in scientific language our terminology is used to define the boundaries of our knowing. What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed.

What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed.

Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery—as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.

I should probably start with the blood.

What is love if not a trick of the light?

He shook his head again. 'I just can't figure out why anyone in his right head would bother these Virgin River women.' 'Yeah. Makes no sense.' Jack said.

Nothing is ever what it seems, he

His smile was constant, which was a signal—you only smile when something makes you smile. If you smile all the time, you're hiding something.

There's a lot more to you than meets the eye." "There's more to everyone than meets the eye," Clay said. "I hope you'll forgive me—

They're lying. Angel's friends, her brother—they all know more than they're saying. And yet they also seem genuinely concerned and want her back. Meaning?

I mean, if this guy is her brother, why is she so freakin' anxious to get away from him?

Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler. Pretty much any detective on the job loves a good puzzle.

Catherine and watch my legal troubles go away. Or

had worked to get to the driver, who, pinned in her seat, was hanging upside down, seat belt still in place, her body as broken and twisted as the car. Alvarez had looked into the body bag and felt her insides go cold. Questions that had haunted her about the victim for the past few days now pounded through her brain: Why had she left in the middle of the night?

Except Detective Reed did show up today. You

Good. Slowly, nerves as tight as bowstrings, she swept the weakening beam across the floor. Heart racing, ready to bolt, she tried to convince herself there was no one in the vault, no one but her and her own pounding pulse. She was wrong. A skeleton lay stretched upon a slab—a woman, she guessed, from its small size and the rotting nightgown and dark clumps of hair. "Oh, dear God." The corpse had been here a while—teeth

His only lead was Ginny Slade, aka Virginia Watson Slade, and he'd have to track her down, but it wouldn't be easy. It would take time and money. Lots and lots of Danvers money.

Khloe's mother—a