Quotes About Mystery

At times, my brother made me think of one of those tapered, horned conch shells, with a glossy pink interior curving away and out of sight into some tightly wound inner mystery. You could hold your ear to such a shell and imagine you heard the depths of a vast roaring ocean—but it was really just a trick of acoustics.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

We did something very simple," Effie says. "Yes, and what was that?" Effie Mumford stares off the porch into the night sky. The first stars of the evening are quietly arriving, and Billy, following her gaze, listens as the small girl speaks. "We allowed ourselves, for one brief moment, to believe in something we could not see.

Son, in this life, you don't ever walk by a red dress.

Noi non giudichiamo. Le cose strane sono il nostro mestiere.

A moment later, she and The Little Guy disappear into the trees. I didn't know exactly what was going on. I thought maybe she was going to eat him in privacy, because it had crossed my mind to do just that. There wouldn't have been a lot of preparation and very little hair to spit out. Just swing him by the feet, whack him on a rock, and a hot dinner was served.

Somewhere, a toad farted ominously.

Some of the world's blackest holes are out in the open for anyone to see....

Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body.

Wait a second," Han said. "What are those things?" She shook her head. "Life-forms." "Thanks, Doc," he said.

Scopique leaned in close. "Lord Scabrous." "What about him?" "If he is abducting students for his own purposes," Scopique said, "then someone needs to find out who might be next.

It was the only reason I could fight those things off. It's because of how Scabrous used it in that experiment. I think it's inside their bodies somehow. I told it to grow. But …" Zo shook her head. "It's not there anymore. Now I can't get it to respond to me at all. It might be dead.

Negative." One of the engineers, Greeley, shook his head. "Communications are five-by. Ditto the scanners. It all checks out." He flicked his eyes upward. "It's just a ghost ship, that's all.

I got the sense that she was wired into the night itself, aware of every fluctuation of electricity and sound, the reflections in glass and steel.

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play.

door swung open again before Mason could ask if she was taking Dennis

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?" "I don't even know what language that is.

Did Cap'n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny." "Yeah," I said, "that's exactly how I'd describe him.

You know what to do?" "Wander around," I said. "Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.

Fear is an expression of what we do not know.

The mystery of catastrophe discloses a fuller and deeper understanding of the why and the what behind diaspora and the catastrophes which lead to movements of people as refugees, migrants, and displaced peoples to fulfill God's global plan of redemption.

Joel Richardson

information in His Bible that is impossible to understand.

Every rock-face tells a story, every valley hides a secret. You can see time itself shaped in these rocks, if you look.