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Quotes About Mystery

It was a box of tissues.
~ Louis Sachar
YOU ARE ENTERING CAMP GREEN LAKE
~ Louis Sachar
Mugworm Griblick
~ Louis Sachar
Miss Nogard?
~ Louis Sachar
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It is often said that there should be no death or grief in children's stories. It is not wise to dwell on the dark and sad side of these things; but they have also a bright and lovely side, and since even the youngest, dearest, and most guarded child cannot escape some knowledge of the great mystery, is it not well to teach them in simple, cheerful ways that affection sweetens sorrow, and a lovely life can make death beautiful?
~ Louisa May Alcott
Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…
~ Louisa May Alcott
If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Shrouded in a thick veil
~ Louisa May Alcott
Because, what? You won't tell? Never! Well, I have a bad trick
~ Louisa May Alcott
something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but
~ Louisa May Alcott
Out came Meg, with gray horse-hair hanging about her face, a red and black robe, a staff, and cabalistic signs upon her cloak.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes owls came near to warn of death. Sometimes they just asked people to be careful. Sometimes they were just owls.
~ Louise Erdrich
For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings in Shakespeare, she thought.Identities disguised continually, in a combative dance of illusion and discovery.
~ Louise Erdrich
Since he was seldom seen, people often wondered about his whereabouts.
~ Ron Chernow
For this reason, I have stressed his evangelical Baptism as the passkey that unlocks many mysteries of his life.
~ Ron Chernow
He learned to cultivate a secretive style and a defiant attitude toward strangers.
~ Ron Chernow
Is it possible that is not known?
~ Ron Chernow
Gates was always mystified by Morgan's success.
~ Ron Chernow
He made a cryptic statement to Hewitt that entered into Rockefeller folklore: "I have ways of making money you know nothing about.
~ Ron Chernow
For all these years no one has known and no one seems to have cared how it came into existence.
~ Ron Chernow
The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.
~ Ron Koertge
Did you know if you look deep, deep, deep into a cat's eyes, there's an alter with three candles ?
~ Ron Koertge
But if they had meant to murder me, the camel-lady was mysteriously murmuring to Monsignor Parr, they would not have put chocolate in the luncheon-basket; my courage returned to me at that!
~ Ronald Firbank