Quotes About Mystery

Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes. He came home plastered, nearly unconscious

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged. It was exactly like dreaming the same dream, then waking too soon and never finding out what had happened.

I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.

You know what love is?...It's what you least expect.

No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.

She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.

Is it not beautiful?" I said of the world around us. Is it not terrible?

People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.

Lydia went over and handed him a paper napkin. Conner stared at the napkin as if it were something delivered directly from the moon.

this occurred only once in a person's life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life

he saw love inside her. It looked like a dove, he said, but appearances could fool you. Some people mistakenly believed it was peaceful and calm, but that wasn't what love was. It was a wolf. If you open the door and call it inside, you must sink to your knees and say its name, you must do so whether you are cursed or not. That was the mystery Abraham had come to understand. Always and everywhere, love was the answer.

Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.

I think if I believe in anything, I believe in ghosts.

Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and

How can we understand life? It's impossible.

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...

ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight.

Lightening, like love, is never ruled by logic. Accidents happen, and they always will.

Maria was a weather witch and could stop rain by standing in a downpour with her arms uplifted.

Black cats can do that to some people: They make them go all shivery and scared and remind them of dark.

You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect.

What I wanted to know had both nothing and everything to do with the natural world. I wished to know love.

Was it possible to know anyone, truly?

Oh, you're moonlight, he'd said. Harder to see, but there for those who look.