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Quotes About Mystery

Want to guess what comes up when I Google "Woman discovers"? It's not "new galaxy." It's "a body in her trunk" or the unthinkable in her attic." According to my computer search, other big discoveries by women include "her co-worker is her birth mom," "a Renaissance painting in her kitchen," and "her new home was once a meth lab." Hey, at least that one contains the word "lab.
~ Gina Barreca
God is everything higher which I cannot understand but only believe.
~ Gitta Sereny
Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.
~ Glen Cook
She is the darkness.
~ Glen Cook
Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?" "I don't know. The falling sickness?" "Give him some of his own soup," somebody suggested. "Serve him right." A tin cup appeared. We forced its contents down his throat. His eye clicked open. "What are you trying to do? Poison me? Feh! What was that? Boiled sewage?" "Your soup," I told him.
~ Glen Cook
A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.
~ Glen Cook
into trouble because what he keeps hidden under his skirt has a mind of its own.
~ Glen Cook
Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill.
~ Glen Cook
the one true secret of the universe: there is always a darker shadow lurking beyond the one whose face you can see.
~ Glen Cook
That Butch Fuller is a no-'count ditch hound, and no decent woman would be seen talkin' to him. But Butch had a laugh like the edges of an April sunset—translucent and mystifying. You knew it couldn't last forever, but you'd stand for hours, hoping for the chance to experience just a glimmer of it once again.
~ Gloria Naylor
We all have secrets in our hearts.
~ Gloria Whelan
Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too? Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. Natalie's diary has better security than this. He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.
~ Gordon Korman
Here's some more stuff we're going to need. 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.
~ Gordon Korman
Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's why I needed ancestry.com.
~ Gordon Korman
What's a starbuck?
~ Gordon Korman
Noah stepped forward for a closer look. "If it's a girl," he said finally, "then what's that?" And we could all see exactly what he was pointing at.
~ Gordon Korman
The Janus, the Tomas, the Ekaterina, and the Lucian!
~ Gordon Korman
stranger stares back at me.
~ Gordon Korman
What's that like? 1) Picture being jailer to Harry Houdini; 2) multiply by five hundred.
~ Gordon Korman
Bear's eyes narrow. "Exactly how much do you remember about the Graybeard Motel?" "Nothing," I reply honestly. He grins. "If you want to go there when you don't have to, you didn't just scramble your brains. You knocked them out completely
~ Gordon Korman
and a thick mustache calmly gestured for them to get in. Amy
~ Gordon Korman
Sometimes it's not such a terrible thing to have a ghost in your phone.
~ Gordon Korman
Never trust a Cahill." They
~ Gordon Korman
This is just our hobby, Dan answered quickly. Instead of collecting stamps, we find creepy old places and poke around.
~ Gordon Korman