Quotes About Mystery

It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life—oh so many more than we think—can never be explained at all.

A complete fiction! Yet something that was clearly and completely fiction could also contain—this was the nub and the mystery of the matter—truth.

In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.

Stars I understand. They shed light and give life. It is the emptiness between that haunts me.

They understood the universe in ways we never will. We can't unlock their secrets—but now, apparently, we can destroy all they ever made. That's what I call progress.

What's a "god"?' Khren asked. Nico, Shewel, and Denbord walked on Tiadba's left, Khren and Macht on her right. Perf, as always, straggled behind with Frinna and Herza. Nobody answered. 'Just thought a Tall One might know,' Khren murmured. Tiadba

Ropes of destiny we cannot see rig this ship

Jesus, you're morbid." "It is, though, ain't it?" "Yeah," Jerry said. He grunted and stooped lower. "We're behaving like idiots. Why this mound, and why now?" "You picked it out." "And I don't know why. Maybe no reason at all.

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

Who are you and why are you here?' 'I'm here to kill you.' 'Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.

There is always something.

Looking down the road that runs along the bluff, I spy a solitary figure in the rain. The Turning Angel.

I've sometimes wondered whether human beings are like the universe itself, where 95 percent of what surrounds us is dark matter, and cannot be seen. The only way black holes can be detected is by the behavior of what's around them—light and matter being distorted by immense forces within the collapsing star. Have I seen and yet not seen certain events that hint at deep

Posts oriented into a Woodhenge, a huge circle for astronomical observations." "Like Stonehenge?" "Exactly like that. Or Cahokia, a similar site up in Illinois.

Willie Stark's eternal rule: There is always something.

All human beings, Carl had learned, were fascinated with death. Only those who knew death intimately, as he did, understood its essential mystery.

The Secret History.

lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out

Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Annie

Wonder is my people attributing the creation of the universe to an act of dismemberment. It is avoiding true mystery through fantasy. And if the universe refuses to conform to your fantasy does it cease to be wonderful That is conceit of the highest order. Nen Yim

TALES OF SOUTHERN WATERS

This is a fairy tale of blood and bullets. The story of two women and three men who cannot die. Mostly. Their names are Andy, Nicky, Joe, Booker, and Nile. Nile joins them. Booker left them. This is what happens next...

Some small towns are built on bloody earth and betrayal.

Mimi killed her brother