Quotes About Mystery

La fe en lo sobrenatural empieza como fe en la superioridad ajena. Su rendición cobró la forma de un asentimiento que le obligaba a ocultar su falta de comprensión, a pensar que otros poseen cierto misterioso conocimiento de que él esta privado, que la realidad es aquello que los quieren que sea, gracias a un medio que a él siempre le será negado.

She constantly surprises him, because he does not really know her. He underestimates Catherine

that archetype is a closed man. Your inner self is forever secretive and unknown—stoic, silent, not revealing of your feelings.

Magic beans, baby. Magic beans.

You mean the Chaos Emeralds?

The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, could I still call myself an atheist?

If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague.

The Dead always find ways," Ysidro said, "to get the living to serve them.

the jury was overwhelmed by the tangle of conflicting tales of Austrian spies, slave-smugglers, mysterious veiled ladies, nameless hired bravos, Italian politics, and enraged divas

Holding his icy hands, she slid for a moment into the outer fringes of the healing trance and whispered to him by his inner name. But it was as if she called at the head of a descending trail along which he had long since passed—there was no answer.

The old man's white brows were pinched down over the bridge of his nose, "and there was grief in his eyes for the loss of one he had known for so many years—grief and something else Caris could not understand. The old man glanced up at the crowd behind them and said "Yes—perhaps.

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.

As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing...he did not claim that God moves in mysterious ways. Instead he seemed to believe, as she did, though they never could have discussed it, that everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.

A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.

Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart.

Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story.

How would you even begin to make a hush puppy, what in the world was in one? Nothing to do with a puppy, surely. Garnett had long known, though he didn't much like to admit it, that God's world and the better part of daily life were full of mysteries known only to women.

You don't ask questions of an attic

There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.