Mystery Quotes

I pointed, still unable to utter a word. Tim looked down at the spectacle behind the shed, his face swiftly draining of color. He gripped my arm with a clammy hand. And then he did something I'd been waiting half my life to see: he dropped into a dead swoon at my feet.

~ Rosie Genova

Love is always the right decision.

~ J.r. Richardson

What did he say? He is in love? My brain stops, my heart stops, my blood ceases to flow. My appendages go weak and cold, and there is a suspension of all space and time as the universe comes into perfect alignment.

~ Julie Sarff

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 wooly mammoth tunics down by the creek, keep his fires burning, bear his children, and tote his brood around on a fur-clad hip.--Ellie Overton

~ Gale Martin

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

~ Kate Milford

Do you know the story?No, Finn, but I have a feeling you're going to tell me.

~ J.r. Richardson

You don't smile enough, Coop.I smile, I tell her defensively. She puts a hand on my shoulder and squares off with me.But not like you mean it.

~ J.r. Richardson

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!

~ Stephen Richards

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

~ Brandi L. Bates

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.

~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don’t understand what’s happening. They see something they don’t like and it upsets them—because they don’t have the full story, aren’t personally facing the problem, and don’t know how much worse the alternative could be.

~ Jim Butcher

Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.

~ Dianne Harman

Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

~ Nikolai Gogol

When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise.

~ Brandi L. Bates

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.

~ Justin Sirois

If I’m going down, I’m going down with lipstick on.

~ Beth Yarnall

Adventure is my middle name.

~ Scott Conrad

What was that for?”“Fingerprints. I’m not wastin’ time explainin’ to cops why six inches of steel went into a dumbass.

~ Randall Kenneth Drake

She took the bottom of her shirt and wiped the handles of the blades. He made a face.“What was that for?”“Fingerprints. I’m not wastin’ time explainin’ to cops why six inches of steel went into a dumbass.

~ Randall Kenneth Drake

At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.

~ Gillian Flynn

So many doors around here, I'm surprised your name isn't Monty Hall.

~ Randall Kenneth Drake

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.

~ Celia Conrad

Across the rectory's east lawn, through a blizzard of flying leaves, something long and thin was flapping in the wind. A ragged figure in a white nightgown hanging lifelessly from the trees.

~ Cash Peters

I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

~ Virginia Woolf

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

~ Will Thomas

I believe in the goddess of mystery. And she’s always pregnant!

~ Victor Robert Lee

After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.

~ Franz Cumont

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

~ Katie St. Claire

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

~ Donna Leon

There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring. That's what it all comes down to. You have to live in a way that will gather enough food each fall to get through winter.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

~ Hans Selye

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

~ Paula Marantz Cohen

That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. A writing desk lies open and you cannot help but read a paper. Then you find something, something you should not have found...

~ Martine Bailey

Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.

~ Lord Patterson Coats

Until all the files are released, former officials and CIA personnel will continue to say or imply that Fidel killed JFK, thus perpetuating the fifty-plus-year Cold War with Cuba

~ Lamar Waldron

Never ask questions you don't want the answer to.

~ Pantea Konn

The man breathed deeply with his eyes shut and his speech trailed off. Nick approached the patient with the syringe in hand, nodding. He turned the machine up now, almost all the way, and then proceeded with the injection.I think you're about ready.

~ Jackie Sonnenberg

He sidestepped down the alley and into another one connected to a small garage, where a raccoon with matching black eyes just like his own halted in mid-step next to a trash can.They stared at each other, not moving or making a sound.'There there, friend. I am not here to interrupt your nightly activity just as you are not here to interrupt mine.'They continued their separate ways, who would be caught and who would not remained a mystery.

~ Jackie Sonnenberg

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

~ Jeffrey Rasley