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Quotes About Mystery

The first generation of the sahanu is dead. The second generation of the sahanu is dead. The Order of Sahanu is dead. Everybody is dead." Javier paused. "Praise be to In-Shinar, the Merciful.
~ Ilona Andrews
I gotta split." Slightly deeper, male. Heard it somewhere before. "You promised!" "The magic's cresting, okay? Gotta split." Young voices. A boy and a girl, talking street. The only available door hung crooked and would make noise when I tried to open it. I kicked the door in and walked inside.
~ Ilona Andrews
What I needed was a big fat clue. A mysterious note laying it all out. A deity popping out of thin air and explaining it to me. Hell, I'd settle for an annoying old lady with a knack for solving mysteries. I actually stopped and waited for a second to see if a clue would fall out of the sky and land at my feet. The Universe declined to oblige.
~ Ilona Andrews
The universe is vast and we're its greatest mystery
~ Ilona Andrews
I was still pissed. "What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.
~ Ilona Andrews
Want to know a secret?" "Sure." "It's not the bathtub, baby.
~ Ilona Andrews
He was terrifying, and I wanted to run my hands down that chest and feel the hard ridges of his abs. I was some special kind of idiot.
~ Ilona Andrews
He was charming and funny and a bit scary, which was always a draw in my book.
~ Ilona Andrews
The gate was open, and Ponytail sprawled on the ground. A hoof-sized hole gaped in his skull, and black flies crawled on his bloody hair. Next to him Tulip waited with a docile expression, looking like th
~ Ilona Andrews
Stay," he said. "We can compare notes on murderers. It will be fun.
~ Ilona Andrews
Tony stayed where he was. He looked around him, his nice face oddly serious, and pulled his hood over his head. His broom darkened to black, flowing into a staff, its tip glowing with red. His robe turned the color of blood, spreading like the mantle of some king, moving seemingly on its own, and beneath that robe and inside of his hood was darkness, cold and empty darkness, the kind that lived between the stars.
~ Ilona Andrews
Of course, he could also sprout tentacles in the night and try to murder me. Only time would tell.
~ Ilona Andrews
lietuvi? tauta privalo b?ti išsaugota, nes joje slypi raktas visoms m?sl?ms – ne tik filologijos, bet ir istorijos — ?minti".
~ Immanuel Kant
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
~ Immanuel Kant
The real is not given to us, but put to us by way of a riddle.
~ Immanuel Kant
many things must remain uncertain, and many a question insoluble, because what we know of nature is by no means sufficient, in all cases, to explain what has to be explained.
~ Immanuel Kant
Un roman trebuie s? semene cu o strad? plin? cu necunoscuÈ›i, pe unde trec dou?, trei fiinÈ›e, nu mai mult, pe care s? le cunoÈ™ti pe de-a întregul.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Beware: forget the reworking of characters. Obviously, the time-span is short. The first three parts, in any case, will only cover a period of three years. As for the last two, well that's God's secret and what I wouldn't give to know it.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
No one can ever truly know another human being.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Had he wanted to get her out of the apartment that night for some reason?
~ Ira Levin
Charmaine was Miss Vamp, provocative and come-hithery in floor-length white silk cut clear to her navel; Dave and Shep were provoked and went thither.
~ Ira Levin
So much for 'tannis root'. Devil's Fungus.
~ Ira Levin
A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
~ Irene Hannon
As for coincidences—I like that old saying about them being small miracles in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
~ Irene Hannon