Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force...

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new...

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute they get married, it's a question they're asked constantly, 'Don't you want to have...

The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or...

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

From chaos to lullabies I watched her live my thoughts, and soon enough she did become my favorite stony. She was everything and with every word she drew me closer. She drew me into her story, a story...

The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to...

I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know I'm up to something but never know exactly what.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other... every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there,...

Poisons are more my thing

Close your eyes and click your heels three times... because there's no place like Dome.

Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make...

Gino refilled my glass. What a night. Booze, broads, and a barroom brawl.

Some friend of yours, perhaps? "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors."

They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as...

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

Lord help her, but she was instantly drawn to his scent - a mixture of smoke and salt and mystery - as well as his strength. The pulse of his heart, the hum of blood through his veins, the aura of...

His grin split even wider. "I'd love the chance to prove you wrong." And when he did, she'd know what he was thinking. She'd know how much he despised the woman who claimed to be a Vetter and allowed...

Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.