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Quotes About Mystery

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~ Lon Milo DuQuette
She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there was something that sparked with warmth, that kept those eyes from being cold.
~ Lora Leigh
She heard a male groan, but whose it was she wasn't certain. "They'll just watch," he whispered as his head lifted. "Watch me eat every perfect inch of your body this time. That's all. No pressure, Kelly.
~ Lora Leigh
They came as quietly as rain, and went away like mists drifting. There were jests about them and songs. And the songs outlasted the jests. At last they became a legend, which haunted those farms for ever: they were spoken of when men told of hopeless quests, and held up to laughter or glory, whichever men had to give. And
~ Lord Dunsany
Hooded, and veiled with their night-like tresses, The Fates shall bring what no prophet guesses. And
~ Lord Dunsany
And beyond that circle whence so much was beaten back by the bright vehemence of the good man's curses, the will-o'-the-wisps rioted, and many a strangeness that poured in that night from Elfland, and goblins held high holiday.
~ Lord Dunsany
The gardener hath gathered up this autumn's leaves. Who shall see them again, or who wot of them? And who shall say what hath befallen in the days of long ago?
~ Lord Dunsany
Who knows what brings fortune, since we cannot see the end?
~ Lord Dunsany
The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.
~ Lord Dunsany
I do not know who the two old men were or what any of them were doing, but there are moments when it is clearly time to go, and I left them there and then.
~ Lord Dunsany
And Night told whose blood had stained the marble steps that lead to the temple in Ozahn, and why the skull within it wears a golden crown, and whose soul is in the wolf that howls in the dark against the city.
~ Lord Dunsany
Then said the gods: "Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods." And They made by the lifting of Their hands, each god according to his sign, the Bright One with the flaring tail to seek from the end of the Worlds to the end of them again, to return again after a hundred years. Man, when thou seest the comet, know that another seeketh besides thee nor ever findeth out.
~ Lord Dunsany
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
~ Loren Eiseley
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
~ Loren Eiseley
The yukti here is to use the terribleness of darkness as a gateway into the mystery of the soul. Meditate on this terror, and something mysterious happens. You become one with the blackness. This yukti tells you to take your worst fear and merge with it.
~ Lorin Roche
Oh, my," said Fletcher, and not knowing exactly what to do with the proof of an alien visit, he scratched it.
~ Lorna Landvik
A match made in heaven - where do you get those? That's what I want to know!
~ Lorrie Moore
I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.
~ Lorrie Moore
Sarah'n?n gülmek yerine, Komik, ya da gülümsemek yerine, İlginç, ya da Aptal z?rva geri zekâl?n?n tekisin, demek yerine, Åžey, san?r?m bu ondan biraz daha karma??k, diyen kad?nlardan olmas?ndan korktum. Öyle insanlar?n yan?nda ne yapaca??m? hiç bilemezdim, özellikle de siz konuÅŸtuktan sonra gizemli bir ÅŸekilde Anl?yorum, diyenlerin. Genellikle sadece susard?m.
~ Lorrie Moore
Imagine a wife and a mistress sharing the same toothbrush forever and ever, never knowing.
~ Lorrie Moore
Visit a place at night, she knew, and it was yours.
~ Lorrie Moore
His fish smells fishier than the others- he is sure of it. Perhaps he has been poisoned.
~ Lorrie Moore
There was sex where you were looked in the eye and beautiful things were said to you, and then there was what Ira used to think of as yoo-hoo sex: where the other person seemed spirited away, not quite there, their pleasure mysterious and crazy and only accidentally involving you. "Yoo-hoo?" was what his grandmother always called before entering a house where she knew someone but not well enough to know whether they were actually home.
~ Lorrie Moore
For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged in his eyes.
~ Louis Bayard