Mystery Quotes

I'd spent my whole career dealing with badasses taking care of my nine-month-old boy should be a lark.

~ C.i. Dennis

If all goes well, we will be back in time for a proper memorial service [for your father], Ben. I promise.Ben looked up, and all the bitterness was gone from his eyes, replaced somehow by both resignation and determination.And if all doesn't go well? he asked, tightening his grip on Coralee's trusting hand as he led her outside to the driveway.Kira's flawless features morphed into something like a smile, yet wholly without happiness or humor.Then you'll all be meeting up with [your father] soon enough, I expect. Either that, or you shall wish it was so.

~ Caitlin Rush

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

~ Sara Sheridan

Rosy’s mummy hands Franny a clear plastic bag full of reject biscuits, then Rosy holds her cheek out for Franny’s wet kiss. Rosy wipes the slime from her face and Franny cackles, then shows them both into the lounge.There on Franny’s coffee table is a biscuit tin with a Christmas picture on the lid. Proper shop-bought biscuits, not factory rejects.“Please, may I have a biscuit?” Rosy says.“Oh, there are no biscuits in that my darling,” Franny says, and pulls the tin from Rosy’s prying fingers. Franny holds open the bag of crumb-speckled chocolate digestives. “Help yourself, my wee hen.”Rosy settles for a reject.Franny puts the Christmas tin up high, way up high, way out of reach.

~ R.g. Manse

Rosy waited as long as she dared then sat forward and let her eye rove Franny’s lounge, up and down the shelves, looking for something, not even sure she could bring herself to act if she saw it again, already convinced this was her worst ever idea

~ R.g. Manse

She loves mysteries so much, she became one.

~ John Green

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

~ Sara Sheridan

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.


~ Sara Sheridan

Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.

~ Caroline Mitchell

If I was in deep shit with Lilian before, I was snorkeling at the waste treatment plant now.

~ C.i. Dennis

No wonder Thanksgiving was my favorite—you can't buy it, wrap it, or put it under a tree, and even the greeting card companies can't seem to make a buck off of it. It's just a meal, with people who you love and who love you back, no matter what.

~ C.i. Dennis

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

~ Sara Sheridan

mysterious like the moon, she would delight you in her glow, her light alone can make you question yourself.. & who was she? She will never let you know.

~ Nikki Rowe

It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philosophical wonder. The man who has never at any time felt consciously struck by the extreme strangeness and oddity of the situation in which we are involved, we know not how, is a man with no affinity for philosophy - and has, by the way, little cause to worry. The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment; indeed, one might almost say that it is the fact that anything is experienced and encounter at all.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

~ Lee Child

Mystical experience needs some form of dogma in order not to dissipate into moments of spiritual intensity that are merely personal, and dogma needs regular infusions of unknowingness to keep from calcifying into the predictable, pontificating, and anti-intellectual services so common in mainstream American churches. So what does all this mean practically? It means that congregations must be conscious of the persistent and ineradicable loneliness that makes a person seek communion, with other people and with God, in the first place. It means that conservative churches that are infused with the bouncy brand of American optimism one finds in sales pitches are selling shit. It means that liberal churches that go months without mentioning the name of Jesus, much less the dying Christ, have no more spiritual purpose or significance than a local union hall. It means that we -- those of us who call ourselves Christians -- need a revolution in the way we worship. This could mean many different things -- poetry as liturgy, focused and extended silences, learning from other religious traditions and rituals (this seems crucial), incorporating apophatic language. But one thing it means for sure: we must be conscious of language as language, must call into question every word we use until we refine or remake a language that is fit for our particular religious doubts and despairs -- and of course (and most of all!) our joys.

~ Christian Wiman

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

~ Lee Child

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

~ Seneca

If anyone views himself as being totally perfect in the actual sense of the word, he is undoubtedly imperfect in God's eyes. For the thought alone is one of presumption, impurity and imperfection. One may rightly strive for perfection pertaining to character and spirit, but must bear in mind that he will never reach its purest form within this human body. The fact that he has strived for it until the end has made him 'perfect' in the eyes of God.

~ Tanya R. Taylor

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes

~ Stephanie Osborn

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

~ Dean Koontz

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what. ~'Dr. Michael C. Anders

~ Stephanie Osborn

I believe the Lord has chosen me to spread His word through my words and who am I to question His plans for me?

~ Cindy Bauer

If it's any consolation, Princess, I think he's a supercilious, salacious sap.You've been reading the dictionary!My only hope of comprehending your conversation, my petite sesquipedalian.

~ Lynn Gardener

Did somebody die?”“Yes,” I replied.“Who?” he asked, starting to freak out. I pulled out my notepad and asked him if he knew a Marcie Tucker. “Marcie? Hm, Marcie, it doesn't ring a bell but… Oh yeah, the temp who's filling in while my regular assistant is out, I think her name is Marcie. In fact, she was supposed to be here today. I was actually starting to worry that… Wait. Is she…”“Unfortunately yes,” I said, “Marcie was found in her apartment late last night uh… no longer alive.” My bedside manner has never been my strong suit.Dr. Taggart looked distressed and began to ramble incoherently for a minute. I let him work through it though, I figured it was his way of grieving. I wouldn't have even paid attention to it except for the fact that it was kind of goofily, ineptly… well, poignant:Oh, uh, Oh my God. That's terrible. I uh… I hope she didn't have any family. I mean, I don't hope she didn't have any family, what I mean is, if she uh… if she didn't have any family then there would be nobody to get all bummed out about this and uh… you know, when something like this happens, you always think about the poor, heartbroken family, so uh… if she doesn't have any family then uh… the bright side would be that nobody would, you know, have to be all bummed out.Hm. I guess I never thought of it that way. Awkward wording aside, he's kind of got a point there.

~ Jules Cassard

Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth, is to make the assumption, usually justified, that everything that is to be considered has indeed been considered. Let us suppose we have considered ten factors. Nine are clearly impossible. Is the tenth, however improbable, therefore true? What if there were an eleventh factor, and a twelfth, & a thirteenth...

~ Isaac Asimov

God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

~ Toni Morrison

Well, it is generally considered— though not always true— that the wife of a man so honoured is likely also to be worthy of the honour, and so it is accorded her. In the event it is false, and I have known that to be so in more than one circumstance , it is still accorded her in deference to her husband.~Sherlock Holmes, with respect to aristocratic titles

~ Stephanie Osborn

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

~ Stephanie Osborn

I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future—if it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility of some sort near the Colorado Rocky Mountains, specifically Pikes Peak, so I assume the nearest city of any import to be Colorado Springs…I am afraid I have little grasp of your project.”~Sherlock Holmes

~ Stephanie Osborn

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

~ Stephanie Osborn

Death lurked everywhere. Death was alive and well.

~ Eric Rickstad

That’s our cue,” Dr. Chadwick noted, managing to approximate a cheerful smile, addressing the room at large. “Everyone please stand behind the yellow line until the doors open. No food, drink, flash photography, or video cameras are permitted. Once aboard the ride, please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times until we come to a full and complete stop. Otherwise, they’re apt to end up in another universe somewhere without ya, and wouldn’t that fry your noggin?

~ Stephanie Osborn

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

~ Lemony Snicket

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

~ Lemony Snicket

There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard.

~ Lemony Snicket

If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

~ Lemony Snicket

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.

~ Lemony Snicket

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

~ Lemony Snicket

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

~ Lemony Snicket