Quotes About Mystery

He stared at her. "How do chicks do that?" "We have uteruses- they give us magic color sense.

Huge and shadowy, with that scent and aura of heat, with the pale gleam of gray irises through dark lashes, he was Lucifer after the Fall, beautiful and primal.

that secret entrance deep between her thighs clenched like the mouth of a drawstring purse.

I clench my fist around your stiffness, and your breathing quickens as I draw it back and forth. After your warm, sticky release, I lick my hand clean. Then I bury my face in your wild, stinking hair and hold you. To hold you is to be at one with you. To be at one with the starry cosmos of ancient gods above. As I hold you I will the night never to end. For our oneness fades with the disappearing stars. And by daylight you are other again.

No one knew exactly why the seals ate stones, but maybe, some thought, it was for ballast. Or to help digestion. Or to stave off hunger. Or, as Brown had written in the journal, 'maybe they're just weird.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

When people write about secret societies, there is a desire to demystify them. I wanted to hyper-mystify them.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.

Solutions are not the answer.

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

A lot of readers and a lot of editors had a story problem with Oracle, in that she made for such an easy, convenient story accelerator, that we missed the sense of having characters have to struggle to discover, to solve mysteries. Famously, it helped make Batman less of a detective and more of a monster hunter.

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.