Mystery Quotes

When you don’t crave increase, you become a mystery

~ Sunday Adelaja

When I look up from my book, the wind has gained its full voice. This storm is the mad child of Father Time and Mother Nature. Wailing away in no predictable rhythm, their monstrous offspring’s throwing a hackle-raising temper tantrum. Underscoring the hideous howl, I detect another, quieter sound, a pitiable, weak whimper which has been all but completely drowned out by the epic volume of the screaming wind. With slowly dawning terror, I realize this cowardly voice is my own; escaping through the narrow opening of my barely parted lips. Where’s my dad? Why is he taking so long?The weather ignores my whining questions and continues to whip itself into a raging convulsion. The windows rattle and the wind screams. But the sounds are no longer random.In the midst of the chaos, the howling begins to form an elongated word. Horrified, I recognize the stretched out syllables of my own name.“Aaaaannaaaaabelle.

~ Alyson Larrabee

A tontine is a kind of primitive insurance fund, combined with a sort of lottery. And while it has many flaws as a financial scheme, as a literary device…

~ Robert Bruce Stewart

No culture is without access to divine mysteries.

~ Andrea Cremer

It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then.

~ Josephine Tey

When you live by the demands and supply of life, Life stops being a mystery to you

~ Sunday Adelaja

This is what Kirkus Reviews has to say about CW McCoy and PEAK SEASON: “CW is a great character. Widmer has a great sense of place, he easily brings the town of Spanish Point and its colorful cast of characters to life. An entertaining mystery romp.

~ Kirkus Reviews

People take power trips at the most inopportune times.

~ Lida Sideris

The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire. A businessman in suit and tie would stick out more than the characters Jackson passed on those old streets.

~ Hunter Murphy

There was a warm breeze blowing in the car as they passed the mansions in the Garden District and they could smell the sweet aroma of the night-blooming jasmine. Soft light fell on the neutral ground along the streetcar tracks.

~ Hunter Murphy

My idea of a great night is just stayin’ home, reading or playing video games. I’m about as boring as they come, Sorena. I ain’t ever been into stress or drama or excitement. Shit, I’d kill for a nap most days.

~ Alisha Ashton

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence. They have felt that it is deeply connected with themselves and with the natural world, but that it also goes beyond. However we choose to define it - it has been called God, Brahman, or Nirvana - this transcendence has been a fact of human life. We have all experienced something similar, whatever our theological opinions, when we listen to a great piece of music or hear a beautiful poem and feel touched within and lifted, momentarily, beyond ourselves. We tend to seek out this experience, and if we do not find it in one setting - in a church or synagogue, for example - we would look elsewhere.

~ Karen Armstrong

Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.

~ Lawren Leo

Toulouse Street ran one way toward the Mississippi River. Jackson looked over [Imogene's] head into one of those famous New Orleans courtyards, full of lush foliage, mossy brick, secrets, and wonder.

~ Hunter Murphy

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

~ I.j. Parker

Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.

~ Lawren Leo

She may never be someone ANYONE can understand. But she will always be worth the wait.

~ John A. Heldt

In the end, one detail is unarguable: There will always be those searching for treasure. Never forget: We are a country founded on legends and myths. We love them, especially legends of treasure. Looking for treasure isn't just part of being an American, it is America.

~ Brad Meltzer

You see? Thane waved at the photo. Everything about her is nonsensical. A dragon who lies with a wolf? I suppose pigs fly and the moon is blue, too.

~ Erin Kellison

Send the mediator to me when he comes. What are you going to do? Matthew knew him so well. Thane would handle this the old way. I'm going to eat him.

~ Erin Kellison

Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.

~ Erin Kellison

He was just Thane. Timeless. Ageless. Magic. The world turned around him.

~ Erin Kellison

...this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.

~ Brad Meltzer

He was a match, she was flint. And between them both...fire.

~ Erin Kellison

God,is there no faith left?He has not told. I would not know Him if I saw Him.

~ Beth Morey

The work of fate is a mystery

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

There was something about the story she told us...that didn't seem right to him. He didn't buy the idea they'd been lovers. He reckoned it was something else. It's the sort of thing he used to pick up on, when I worked with him. You know as well as I do, sir, in a case like this you collect all sorts of facts, but only a few really matter, and Mr Madden had a gift for spotting them. Not that he always knew why: often it was just something he felt - a sort of instinct, I suppose - though he would have said it was simply a matter of paying attention. That's what he used to tell me.

~ Rennie Airth

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence.

~ Karen Armstrong

Someone was going to die, of that he was perfectly sure.The only question was who.

~ Caroline Lawerence

I’m beginning to wish I’d had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.

~ Steve Robinson

What's this one, Mum? There's no return address, and there's like, five stamps on it. Who's it from?Leaning forward to get a closer look at the stamps, I didn't notice the fleeting look of immense sadness pass over her face.Oh it's nothing, darling.I raised my eyebrow at her. She sighed.An overseas friend. You wouldn't know her.And before I could ask what 'her' name was, Mum had left the room.

~ Kelly Batten

The rig began shaking like caffeine withdrawal. --Opening sentence of THE FURY. The duct-taped Buick swam north on Rush Street, hunting whores like a lesser white shark. --First sentence of Chapter One, THE FURY

~ Shane Gericke

A black telephonereceiver was stuffed in the small space between his ear and hisshoulder; he motioned for them to sit in the stiff wooden armchairs infront of his desk. Moments later he hung up the phone, the baseringing lightly from the impact.“So you’re still in a mess, aren’t you?” he said.

~ M.l. Terese

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

~ Fennel Hudson

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

~ Fennel Hudson

Simple spells were light and fun, like a good joke. This spell was as simple as a symphony and as splendid. After adding the last runes, I swirled power through the old spells ensuring they merged with the new spells. The entire castle of spells flexed with the added power, my sign to retreat and hope it worked. Watching the spells bend and move was captivating. One moment they were crawling over each other looking for structure and the next they'd formed a fortress of magic seeking targets, calling them home....Jones?Right behind you. He walked around to my left. How'd it go?Good. Really good.I can tell. You're glowing.I thought he was joking until I glanced at my hand. I had to look like a giant firefly. Narselfart! He laughed. Don't worry about it. It's kinda' cute. Besides, those boys - he jerked his head to indicate the younger cops - aren't ever going to forget this power show.

~ N. E. Conneely

Monday nights always brought in the worst kind of crazy. Tonight that crazy came in the form of Paul Cross, town hermit. One of them, anyway. This was the Pacific Northwest.

~ Tara Kelly

As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

~ Fennel Hudson