Quotes About Mystery

It seems like there's something mysterious about what lives and what dies." He saw that Roo's face had gone grim, and he added, "But each time I find an animal that needs help, I help it as though I'm sure it will live.

You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.

Angela Wexler, person

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

Ellen Raskin

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Black is a girl's best friend.

Go in and get us a shrunken head!

If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me.

So what about that key?" I asked. "I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later." He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me. "What do you want for it?" I sneered. "Five dollars?" "I don't want money," he said with a wicked grin. "What does it go to?" "A kiss will unlock more than this key will," he whispered in my ear.

its a vampire kiss

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

Now, now," said Ellery with a smile. "Surely that's overheated imagination, Jenny? I thought ghosts are indigenous only to old English castles.

Out of the desert came seven men, and a monkey.

i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow

So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?

Abigail, meanwhile, brooded in the backseat. Finally she announced, "None of this makes sense.

There's something happening here, I know it. It's right in front of my face, but I just can't see it.

Grace had so many complexities, so many layers and feelings, and thoughts ... he would happily spend his life trying to unwrap her. Thinking about it, he tore a strip off the hem of her gown. 'What on earth are you going to do with that?' Without answering, he put a knee forward onto the bed, making certain he knew precisely where she was. The last thing he wanted was to land on her like a felled tree.

Las vidas son ectoplasmas al trasluz con ramificaciones de sangre, se enredan unas con otras, se enlazan, se separan, dejando a su paso, después de que todo termine, un rastro de luz removida.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

Così dunque la vita é rimasta un mistero. E io stesso, per me, sono ancora il primo mistero.

the gramophone on them. They seemed like magical objects; the fact that you put a needle on them and sound mysteriously came out amazed me.