Mystery Quotes

There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I’m giddy with thinking where thinking can’t stick.No Names

~ Kay Ryan

I want you, too, Hayes Cardwell, and that isn't the beer talking.They were so close she could see the shine of his dark eyes in the starlight. Without another word, he swept her up in his arms and carried her into the cabin.

~ B.j. Daniels

I know what you're up to.I doubt that. Hayes leaned toward her, his hand looping around the back of McKenzie's neck as he gently drew her to him. Because if you could see what I was up to, then you'd know I was about to kiss you.

~ B.j. Daniels

Once she had thought that she might discover some key to her mother if only she could get her likeness right, but she has since learned that the mysteries of another person only deepen, the longer one looks.

~ Debra Dean

And I suppose you know who Magnus’ father is?” Luke said.“I paid a lot of money once to find it out,” Raphael said.

~ Cassandra Clare

There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2

~ Stefania Mattana

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

~ Stefania Mattana

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.“You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

~ Stefania Mattana

The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect,” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

~ Stefania Mattana

from Pearls and Poison… “In two minutes the cops are going to come barreling though that door,” I whispered to Auntie KiKi hoping to get her mind off the body in the back room. “Any suggestions how we tell these workers out here their candidate just croaked?” “Yell The jackass bit the big one, hip-hip hooray Gloria wins, then run like the dickens before someone recognizes us.

~ Duffy Brown

It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

~ Stefania Mattana

One thing, however, did become clear to him—why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him, in spite of a certain undeniable beauty. Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing—mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery.

~ Hermann Hesse

Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you.

~ Michael Houbrick

The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

~ Judy Nedry

She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

~ Elizabeth Mckenna

At the witching hour, the city was totally silent. Only the wind of portent blew through the gathered council of whispering brick chimneys on the rooftops, delivering the hand that would write upon the wall.

~ Wyatt Michael

I am incognito, running away from scenes of the tested truths that I have so meticulously exacted before I am found guilty of the very things I have written.

~ Wyatt Michael

The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.

~ Robin Mckinley

When you see me in a scarf you may think “Oh, she went to some trouble there.” But no, when I wear a scarf it means” this grey blouse was unwrinkled and those mocha pants make my behind look fine and voila I have a vivid grey,brown and white silk scarf which means I have transformed self from bone lazy to coordinated accessory maven.--Bridget Allison (Gretchen Gallen in my book#3, Maid in Waiting publish date June 2014)

~ Bridget Allison

Idrith didn’t want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat down.

~ Michelle Frost

When you see me in a scarf you may think “Oh, she went to some trouble there.” But no, when I wear a scarf it means this grey blouse was unwrinkled and those mocha pants make my behind look fine and voila I have a vivid grey and brown silk scarf which means I have transformed self from bone lazy to coordinated accessory maven.(Maid in Waiting publish date June 2014)

~ Bridget Allison

The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.

~ Wyatt Michael

Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.

~ Bridget Allison

Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into the darkness that claimed his soul.

~ Wyatt Michael

He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held the only evidence of his identity in his hand and in one motion of forfeit and justice he cast it into the fire.

~ Wyatt Michael

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

~ Deb Caletti

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

~ B.j. Novak

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

~ Charles De Lint

A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.

~ Craig Johnson

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

~ Matt Haig

I always liked the unknown. Ironically I familiarized myself with the uncertainty of life. Life can change in any minute of the day. God can turn anything around in a speck of a moment. I know for a fact that everything changes. Nothing stays the same. This too shall pass.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

What if I don't believe in magic, Finn?That's stupid, how can you not believe in magic, Coop? It's everywhere.

~ J.r. Richardson

When men were ready to marry, look out. Their evolution busted out all over. They nabbed the closest female hanging out near their caves, anyone who looked like she would clean his woolly mammoth tunics down by the creek, keep his fires burning, bear his children, and tote his brood around on a fur-clad hip.

~ Gale Martin

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

~ John Connolly

You did say something I found offensive yesterday.What was that?I believe the word you used was friends.

~ J.r. Richardson

I smile, she blushes.I smirk, she slaps me on the arm, softly.I breathe, because it's easy around her.

~ J.r. Richardson

What does myself now say to me?Open the door of Mystery.

~ May Sarton

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

~ Gary Shteyngart