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Quotes About Mystery

south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. You could just barely see through it, enough to make
~ Barbara Kingsolver
SUNRISE TANTALIZE, evil eyes hypnotize:
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I am looking for the door to another world. I've waited thousands of years. Take me.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
through the woods. Big Bear. I heard him fall
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Sóli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I felt as though I had a blind date with destiny, and someone had heard a rumor that destiny looked like Christopher Reeve.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
So what do I know about ocean, still yet to stand on its sandy beard and look it in the eye? Still waiting to meet the one big thing I know is not going to swallow me alive.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Right there in the middle of the road he took the cigarette out of my mouth and put it in his, then struck a match on his thumbnail and lit the two of them together, exactly like Humphrey Bogart. Then, ever so gently, he put the lit cigarette back in my lips. It seemed almost like we had kissed. Chills ran down my back, but I couldn't tell for sure if it was thrill chills or the creeps. Sometimes it is very hard to know the difference.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
At the first sign of winter the trees began to die. Leaves and aborted fruits fell in thick, brittle handfuls like the hair of a cancer patient. The abundance of sun and warmth, which we thought would never end, had led the trees on too, promising the impossible. But now the daylight grew thin and they showed no will to live. A dead sea of leaves drifted deep and undisturbed on the orchard floors. No children played there. I spent a lot of time considering the mystery of my family tree.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Conscious Evolution Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it. Barbara Marx Hubbard
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
as she smiled and chatted and explained she felt like someone entertaining unexpected visitors with a dead body under the sofa.
~ Barbara Michaels
Dead men don't bleed. A thriller title if ever there was one.
~ Barbara Michaels
They jealous 'cause you got the night in you. Some people got night in 'em, some got morning, others, like me and your mama, got dusk. But it's only them that's got night can become invisible. People what got night in 'em can step into the dark and poof—disappear! Go any old where they want. Do anything. Ride them stars up there, like as not.
~ Barbara Neely
skipped the rest of the way to Room Nine.
~ Barbara Park
Because maybe the surprise was hiding down there with a red ribbon on top of it.
~ Barbara Park
what happened at school," she said.
~ Barbara Park
And what's this the cat's dragged in then? Lochinvar,' she said acidly.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. They'll solve it." Reggie chuckled when he realized Sebastian was puzzled, if only momentarily. "That's the real name for Scotland Yard, which is actually the name of the street and the building where they are housed.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Arrington smoked
~ Barry Eisler
Barry Eisler
~ Pernicious.
Her fingers were small in my hand but her grip was firm. I tried to place her age. Late twenties, maybe thirty. She looked young, but her dress and mannerisms were sophisticated.
~ Barry Eisler
I am a dragon. America the beautiful, like you will never know.
~ Barry Hannah
Miser Shen is preparing to spend the night with a goat.
~ Barry Hughart
Within an hour we had a visit from a gentleman with shifty eyes and an interesting pattern of knife scars where his nose used to be
~ Barry Hughart