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.
I think I can hear the unseen moon
He studied her lips like they were a riddle he desperately needed to solve.
It's the sound of the sea that makes you believe in mermaids.
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Did he put hands on you? Not quite. I think that was going to be next, but O'Brian drew him off. Before that, Clifton got angry I wasn't telling him whatever he wanted to know and accused me of being...
Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the...
A blacksmith can go anywhere. A detective inspector only goes where the dead bodies are. "But there aren't any dead people here today." Mina glanced over her shoulder at the chest Newberry carried....
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...