Quotes About Mystery

A wide streak of blood trailed from the entrance of the tomb to Hideki's father, and Hideki's heart lurched.

Miss Hachi," he said. "Master Fungus." "Fergus.

How was he standing on top of the water, but still moving?

But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?

The woman, early thirties with frosted brown hair,

answered in a low, breathless voice.

Sandra left at five. I don't know if anyone else was around. I'll have to check." Not the kind of answer we like to hear.

4 million volts course like lovers through her body. Eerie rays eliminate from bulbous cathodes to caress her skin penetrating deep. Also somewhat like lovers, actually. Chemicals so secret they don't even have names and bubbles and spurts in her vein.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar

What would I tell people? That I work in the Defense against the Dark Arts Division?" "I have another name in mind: Special Cases Unit.

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still.

Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it.

I don't think the Rattlers are coming back," I said, remembering the bar in the Hall of History. The Rattlers had come and gone during the Fourth Occupation, about nine million years ago, and nothing had been heard of them since.

No one is supposed to know about my personal life because that is supposed to be kept private.

But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.

There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.

I guess stars do not want to share anything about their personal life because then there is a question of where is the relationship going and so on and so forth.

I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.