Mystery Quotes

He’d been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

~ B.j. Daniels

He started for his office, but something was bothering him. Turning back to her, he said, “I have to know. DJ walks in and you instantly like her. You’ve never liked any of the women I’ve dated, and you’ve never done more than share a few words with them on the phone. What is different about this one?” he demanded, trying to keep his voice down. Marge smiled. “You’ll remember this one’s name.

~ B.j. Daniels

I want to die.” May shook her head. “Let me get a knife.” “I’ve made a horrible mess of things.” “Haven’t we all? If you don’t want your supper burned, die quietly while I get back to the kitchen.

~ B.j. Daniels

You’re a real cowboy.”,He laughed. “You’re just now realizing that?

~ B.j. Daniels

DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. “I believe you owe me a kiss.

~ B.j. Daniels

I reckon it’s true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.

~ Lisa Kaye Presley

Death is not friendly. It's dark, black where you look at it. You're all alone. But it's no different when you're alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we're all alone. - Misaki Mei

~ Yukito Ayatsuji

There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... If you're reading this, I'm already dead.

~ Elizabeth Heiter

You're overconfident, mysterious, dark, picky, edgy, cold and have sixty-nine more faults. That's why you're perfect.

~ Thedauntlessreader

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. It's smell and it's color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Winston Breen was solving a puzzle, but then Winston Breen was always solving a puzzle.

~ Eric Berlin

To my editors, I graciously thank you. I now know “is” and “was” aren't the same thing. It's the periods and commas that got me. Can't see the darn things.

~ S.n. Deinscheiss

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant than it is. His sickness was the sickness of our age. We want so much not to be extinguished at the end that we will go to any length to make conjuror-tricks for one another simply to obscure the bitter, secret knowledge that it is our fate not to be.

~ Gore Vidal

Who hides a ring? Who sets up this whole cockamamie production with puzzle pieces and treasure hunts and who knows what else over a ring?

~ Eric Berlin

She was our guardian angel. Lucy saved us from mystery. Without her, our marriage would be ruined. Her disappearance created an open wound that we can't fix but the most devasting reality is probably the fact that her body will never be found. She is a living ghost in Wilmington, North Carolina.

~ Chloé Danielo

You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still perhaps. You have spared me all those wanderings.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

The tone of his remarks filled me with a burning desire to kick Mr. Horridge; but that being impracticable, I should certainly, if left to myself, have told him to go to the devil and forthwith walked out of the house.

~ R. Austin Freeman

Great detectives are extremely rare. I believe they are the products of thousands of years of evolution. Their abilities to perceive and understand cannot be learned or taught. We can only wait for them to appear. It is unfortunate they are so few, and even more tragic that fewer still ever find their way into police work.

~ Laurence Giliotti

In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors - A-ya

~ Suzumu

My hobby is to make up these false stories. The stories that I create impact the public in a completely different form... It's enjoyable when it proceeds just as I expect it to. - A-ya

~ Suzumu

...Yes... I am perfect. A perfect 'impostor'. B-ko

~ Suzumu

Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...

~ Peter J. Tanous

Love is hope and expectation. If many want to pencil it in, some don’t dare to ink it in, because love also means mystery and enigma. ( Love as dizzy as a cathedral)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Mathematics is one of the major modern mysteries. Perhaps it is the leading one, occupying a place in our society similar to the religious mysteries of another age. If we want to know something about what our age is all about, we should have some understanding of what mathematics is, and of how the mathematician operates and thinks.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

Books make such good friends and quiet neighbors.

~ Catriona Mcpherson

In my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has grown wealthy by selling chickens at twelve ounces to the pound, or the silk sweep of Mamie Tracy, whose diamonds have been stolen down on the avenue...

~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would.I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Did you fall asleep?No. I couldn't sleep that night.You were restless?I was thinking of you.The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on.

~ Wilkie Collins

And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, 'Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

~ Peter J. Tanous

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.

~ Suzanne F. Kingsmill

Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.

~ Moriarty

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.

~ Gillan Flynn

You are hiding something from me, I say and Sidney Grice shakes his head. 'No,' he tells me quietly. 'I am hiding a great many things'.

~ M.r.c. Kasasian

We do not serve spirits to the ladies.''As you have probably guessed, I am not a lady

~ M.r.c. Kasasian

Where are your clothes? And do not pretend you do not know. I can accept that you may not know if you killed a man, but every girl always knows where her clothes are.

~ M.r.c. Kasasian

Curiosity is the offspring of mystery. For without mystery there be no need for curiosity. Curiosity is the search for the things that can be, it is the inspiration of the true adventurer.

~ Paul Bamikole

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

~ Madeleine Brent

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.

~ Agatha Christie

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

~ John Fowles

Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right, they could also be deadly.

~ Julie Mcelwain