Mystery Quotes

It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car.

~ Saba Kapur

Terrible fires resemble terrible people. They are unpredictable. They are selfish. they are deadly and ruinous. And no matter where they are prowling, no matter what treachery they are cooking up, they have something in common. They can be stopped.

~ Lemony Snicket

Humans are the mystery of the universe.

~ Gabriella Jording

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

~ Oscar Wilde

It was a puzzle, a dark and lonely one, and if I were a piece in this puzzle, I did not know where it belonged. I needed to put myself aside, just for a little while, until I saw where I might fit in.

~ Lemony Snicket

Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb.

~ L.a. Larkin

A killer on the payroll isn't good for business

~ L.a. Larkin

When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn

~ Carolyn Keene

Maggie Dove wanted to be a beacon of light. She dreamed of being the sort of person who made others laugh, calmed crying babies, soothed wild dogs, inspired hopefulness.

~ Susan Breen

I promise it'll only hurt half as much as I wish it would. The words came out as smooth and sweet as if she'd just told him that mint chocolate chip was the best flavor ice cream ever.

~ Avery Flynn

A memory can taint your dreams

~ Abilash Balan

Scent of old books a mystery, a secret port of the dreamers.

~ China Cancio

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

~ Victoria Schwab

You still awake?' asked the anesthetist.'Nope,' I replied.

~ Eoin Colfer

I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.

~ Donnie Eichar

Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around? Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. What'd he do, run over a fish?

~ Susannah Sandlin

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

~ Peter J. Tanous

Looking at the Blessed Mother, Kevin felt the pull of a special allegiance with her. To Serve God, to honor Mary who speaks to my soul, sending me messages I cannot know the meaning of? Is this what my life is about?

~ Peter J Tanous

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all beneficial, God would use it really to bring one right back to Truth, as countless 'inventions' have brought men to discovery.

~ Criss Jami

People are mystery as far you go deeper as more mystery you can find. New generation, new tricks, new misteries, new problems... people are hard to be understand as deeper you go as more missunderstand the stuff.

~ Deyth Banger

Zig´s snores went from cute fluttery noises to full out audio warfare

~ Rhys Ford

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--''Put that away, Hazel,' hissed Mam. 'The poor boy is in pain.'Hazel persisted. 'Would that be a white-hot pain? Or more of a dull throbbing pain?

~ Eoin Colfer

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

~ Dick Francis

The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.

~ Jack Keely

I don't believe in monsters.Well, Red, I think you might want to start. Pike turned and looked him in the eye. What do you think those green things were? And what do you think is trying to smash its way in here? A pony?

~ Jack Keely

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

~ Joseph Addison

Rachel slid inside her silver Kia and slammed the car door, grateful that the museum’s security guard was now watching from a distance. If he hadn’t been, she might have acted on a homicidal impulse and run Chase over, the manipulative jerk. In fact, it made her feel better just to imagine it.

~ Kaylin Mcfarren

Calvi was sobbing. This couldn't be! A moment ago the Pope was healthy, smiling. How could His Holiness be no longer? Only a month into his papacy!

~ Peter J. Tanous

Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who'd be next? Calvi shuddered. His life's work was safe-guarding this document. Whatever its purpose or mystery, it was his solemn and sole mission to protect it. Even if it meant giving up his life for it.

~ Peter J. Tanous

The pope was lying fully stretched out on the floor, his body half-obscured by Cardinal Villot, who was leaning over him. Calvi's heart jumped into his throat. The pontiff 's eyes were shut, his face distorted in pain. He wasn't breathing. He was life-less, drained of color.

~ Peter J. Tanous

Passion is such a stronge emotion that it dominates everything. It's like a strong spice in a meal, or a dominant red in a painting. Your senses are drawn to it at the expense of everything else. Dominic and I were not physical friends, so to speak. But I did love him. We can't help loving the people we do, can we? But the love doesn't have to be physical. You can be equally intimate. It doesn't matter.

~ James Runcie

The wiry man scratched his head, looked the two inquisitors up and down and cleared his throat softly. “We must be quick.” He turned to go, pulling his cloak over his head and shuffling through the door into the moonlight. The two inquisitors moved with impossible silence behind, floating across the straw-covered floor like the cats on the walls outside the hut. The cats froze at the disturbance before scurrying noiselessly into the shadows as the three silhouettes crossed the ten yards of grass before the blackness of the forest swallowed them. No fires flickered at this time, when the full moon was highest in the cloudless summer sky, and the three were the only waking souls in the hamlet.

~ Gregory Figg

Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half seriously, half in fun, that he had always had the knack of sensing a Sunday from his bed, without even having to open his eyes.

~ Georges Simenon

The motive of man is a mystery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love. The simplest and most complicated concept in life. You crave it, you fear it, you fight for it, you live for it, you might even be willing to die for it. It’s a mystery, a gift and an honor. To give and to receive. To give is to receive.

~ Brownell Landrum

What’s the mission at hand? To save the Church? To save the pope? Uncover a menacing secret society within the Church? Eliminate the would-be assassins? Or could it be something else, something even more portentous and earth-shattering?

~ Peter J Tanous

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

~ Thomas Harris

The luminescent flow of a sunbathed garden— illuminating the shifting colors of its inhabitants— echoed in my memory as I opened the antique bookstore door in the shaft of window light. The books, like the flowers of the garden, awaited me with the thrill of a new mystery.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

That,” Adriana said, “is a puzzling mystery that must be solved.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

People want one book to read about the topic and to learn everything, unfortunately I was the same guy, the same person. Who wanted the same, but most stuff and for the most clever and intelligent people is mystery.

~ Deyth Banger