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Quotes About Furtive

It was a stolen type of kiss.
~ Stephen Chbosky
He had a mop of unkempt hair dark as any wine-dark sea; a vague sense of coffeehouse revolutionary to him; and quick, furtive eyes that missed little. He was one of those uncomfortably intense men most people find a little unnerving, as if his rhythms were a little too rapid, or perhaps he was too quickly wired through synapse, or bore too many unforgivable grudges, or was too quick to haggle to the death over a nickel.
~ Stephen Hunter
On the sly, scoping for love.
~ Aretha Franklin
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Another male patron skulked around the back like he was in the adult movie area at his local video store. Again
~ Harlan Coben
activity. Every cubicle held a desk operative, furtively
~ Josie Brown
surreptitiously watching
~ Julia London
He kept low and darted to another tree. He looked, he assumed, rather doofy - a guy six feet four inches tall and comfortably over two hundred pounds darting between bushes like something left on the cutting room floor of The Dirty Dozen.
~ Harlan Coben
He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk to me," said Jace. "No," said Clary. "I want to eat. I'm starving.
~ Cassandra Clare
You look furtive, my dear. I hope you haven't done any interfering in that quarter as well.
~ Storm Constantine
Bülow drew danger to himself by the excessive use of technique; he behaved like a spy because he enjoyed the trappings of conspiracy. He had been making the same furtive mistakes for such a long time that he believed they had preserved his life. No one else doubted that sooner or later they would kill him.
~ Charles McCarry
A lot of different people under the queer umbrella come together but Like there's something inherently queer about the heist genre, in some way. It's about just flying under the radar and procuring something furtively or, you know, that thing that is just so fun and high-stakes in the way that a lot of queer experiences are.
~ Bowen Yang
Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved.
~ Tana French
Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.
~ Victor Hugo
She had slit a tiny opening in the lining and slipped the thick envelope inside of it.
~ Kristin Hannah
I smuggle, not snuggle.
~ Chuck Wendig
So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose--so it seems.
~ Virginia Woolf
Your face is a secret. Hiss, Hiss.
~ Larissa Szporluk
RULE 2: IF YOU WANT TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET, DON'T LEAVE IT LYING AROUND.
~ Lauren Child
If there's a back door somewhere, I take it. I try to get about without being noticed.
~ Freddie Ljungberg
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It would have pained the immaculate Monty, could he have known that his prospective employer was picturing him at the moment as furtive, shifty-eyed, rat-like person of the gangster, type, liable at the first opportunity to sneak into the sties of innocent pigs and plant pineapple bombs in their bran-mash.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
~ Jeanette Winterson
as thrilling as a child's game: the hiding, the secrets, the lies, the play-acting, the giggling satisfaction, the guilt, even the furtive sex itself.
~ Paul Theroux