Quotes About Mystery

Yes, all the inhabitants of the store had left. But that didn't mean we were alone.

Do you remember," George went on, "what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere's? Aside from a massive pile of human bones." "I found

What I mean is, we're not necessarily going to run into trouble here. Despite its history of violent death.

Jonathan Stroud

He turned to face her, his body tingling. She gave a little shudder. "Did you feel that too?" she asked. "Yes," he said softly, "but don't talk." She pushed him away. "It was our sensor webs, you fool. Something's triggered them.

Breathing hard between her teeth, she swung the torch around. Where was Albert? Lying on his back by the steps, with his legs wavering in the air. It was typical of him.

Istared at George's body.

Lockwood led the way down a side street, rapier glinting beneath a long, heavy overcoat that swung stylishly behind him. George and I trotted alongside.

Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Stroud

Did it talk about the afterlife?' George said eagerly. His eyes shone bright behind his spectacles. 'That's the big one. That's what everyone wants. What happens after death. Immortality... The fate of the human soul...' I took a deep breath. 'It said you were fat.

He'd been many things to me, Nathaniel had, most of them indescribable. But he never looked so much of a puppet as he did now. And already it had all gone wrong.

Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Stroud

Hail, fellow, well met,All dirty and wet:Find out if you can,Who's master, who's man.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all.

We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday morning to speak gibberish to each other, and you would think, in these godless times, that the experience would be empty, but somehow it isn't.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

They can trigger me. But they'll never figure me out.

they can trigger me, bu they'll never figure me out

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.