Quotes About Mystery

When he had gone, I lay in bed for a long time, listening to the voices of the choir at evensong. Outside, the darkness thickened and grew strange.

They were talking about me, I was sure of it. And I couldn't for the life of me imagine why. I continued inspecting the asparagus, early peas, and summer squash—produce that my mother had, as usual, commissioned me to procure for the tavern.

Opening his arms he said quietly to her, "Disappear here.

At first I was queasy I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.

obfuscating everything in sight

How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.

life is much like a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We are acutely aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch. Of course, we don't know exactly what it is that we don't know, so we can't frame the question well. We ask, "What is the meaning of life?

The slab rocked hard, stopped, then began rotating, very slowly. Barely making a full arc before continuing until it was perpendicular with the floor. It came to a halt, shaking the floor. I tried to move it; locked into place. Rectangular opening, four feet by two. Dark, but

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What are you saying? Multiple bad guys?" "I was actually wondering about one bad

and had been observed entering and exiting one of Larue's current

the gruesome opposite of tearing into gift wrap.

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Donald Trump of the crime scene," I said.

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bosh," he finally said. "Ook-la. Palm trees

does Ms. Garcia hang

she'd heard he was some sort of karate honcho, occasionally

Not a word about the tiny bones. I wondered why a married woman would avoid the plural form.

And he laughs and winks again and says, 'Happy endings, Earl, happy endings.' As if we're sharing his nasty secret and he thinks I'm not free to divulge it because he's my client." Milo said, "You think he had something to

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.

as 'an explanation of ignotum ab ignoto'"—a theory that relies on the unknown to explain the unknown.

What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this." I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said. "But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more." "Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.