Quotes About Mystery

She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden.

The real trick is to let life, with all it's ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring then it's end.

Kallista nodded. "Come, Torchay. Seems we should pack." They sailed upriver with the dawn. "What's wrong with you?" Someone had hold of Stone's hair, shaking his head as if it were a sackful of kittens to be drowned.

The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns.

mermaids floated

If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman.

Huh. Redheads. What is it about redheads?

He seemed to have a story no one had bothered to discover

The garden is a world filled with secrets. Slowly, I see more each day. The black pines twist and turn to form graceful shapes, while the moss is a carpet of green that invites you to sit by the pond. Even the stone lanterns, which dimly light the way at night, allow you to see only so much.

Why do I go outside at one a.m. and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?

Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.

She resembled a rainbow and the pot of gold; rarely observed and never discovered.

How God works this out is another mystery, but I have found this line of thought helpful. God does not usurp our responsibility because He doesn't work contrary to our nature, nor force our wills. As we decide, He works within our wills and in harmony with our nature to bring about His determined end. If God did force us, we would not be responsible.

When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead and have and make. If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?" "Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

After this happens, Denny will be free to live his life, and I will return to earth in a new form, as a man, and I will find him and shake his hand and comment on how talented he is, and then I will wink at him and say, "Enzo says hello," and turn and walk quickly away as he calls after me, "Do I know you?" He will call, "Have we met before?

The preference for Abel over Cain, like that of Jacob over Esau, is grounded in the mystery of election, a domain of divine activity that is closed off to full human comprehension.

The thing I heard howling in the woods. It was no Coyote.

We must never forget that the paschal mystery does not expose that which man has done to offend God but that which God has done to redeem man. Lent is never about me, no matter how much I may have wronged the Lord; Lent is always about Christ Jesus and his sacrificial love.

Doug Swieteck's brother wouldn't even come near me, and I would foil Mrs. Baker's nefarious plan. But

What kind of god would allow the starlight from distant stars to continue forever, even after the star has 'died,'--a fundamental premise of contemporary astrophysics--yet would not provide the same opportunity for our personal biophotons?