Mystery Quotes

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried.

~ Simona Panova

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

~ Simona Panova

I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.

~ Michael Connelly

The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.

~ Simona Panova

Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too.I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer.She said that after all she heard about you she thought your johnson would be bigger.Tell her that the air conditioner was on.

~ Walter Mosley

...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...

~ Rebecca Solnit

And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep.Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

~ Cassandra Clare

The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn’t who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.

~ Robert Koger

That’s the beauty of the universe. There’s always a new mystery.

~ James Rollins

You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.

~ Daniel Suarez

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

~ Michael Connelly

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.And it's our job to stop them.

~ Jasper Fforde

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

~ Justin Bog

Shut up! Finn turned, furious. Look at you both! The only friends I have in this hell and all you can do is fight over me. Do either of you care about me? Not the seer, the fighter, the fool who takes all the risks, but me, Finn?

~ Catherine Fisher

The click of the seat belt securing into the buckle is the only sound to break the awkward silence. I feel his warm breath on my neck as he reaches and I take a deep nervous inhale. His scent fills my nose, it is clean and warm, just like in the coffee shop. The smell of his skin is delicious. I try to stop these thoughts, but they are invading my brain in a way that has never happened to me before. Not even with...Rick. I try push him back out of my mind at this moment because I feel a sense of guilt. Rick and I are frozen. That’s the only way I can describe us. He is faithful, he is steady, he is nice, but he is not like this man in front of me: new, mysterious, and unpredictable. Rick and I are in a state of comfort, but like much of my life, I am becoming more and more discontent with comfort.

~ Nina G. Jones

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

~ Stefan Petrucha

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

~ Richard Bach

You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

~ Michael Connelly

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

~ Michael Connelly

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

~ Walter Mosley

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world's flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm and outward tideWe hear a promise, hard to understand:From the compulsion that all creatures binds,Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.

~ Walter Mosley

I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.

~ Walter Mosley

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

~ Charles Dickens

All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.

~ Michael Connelly

General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt's head of antiquities would return to Cairo, and St. Louis would enjoy her treasure. But treasures sometimes have a higher price than their acquisition cost.

~ Michele Bonnell

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

~ Carolyn Wheat

Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.

~ James Tarantin

As an instinct told her which way to turn, her wisdom told her that it will be a long path to manifest.

~ Sarah Pussell

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

~ Raymond Chandler

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.

~ Sylvia Plath

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

~ Peter Rollins

Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, Then I have succeeded, Blunt.

~ Nicole Sager

Out from behind the desk where he’d been sitting, hidden by the piles of books, appeared a bespectacled, green-eyed man in a green plaid suit. His thick white hair was shaggy and mussed, his nose was rather large and lumpy like a vegetable, and although it was clear he had recently shaved, he appeared to have done so without benefit of a mirror, for here and there upon his neck and chin were nicks from a razor, and occasional white whiskers that he’d missed altogether. This was Mr. Benedict.

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

That if a thing is defined in contrast that's what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn't be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn't be life. The badness was life, just happening, as essential a part of the good as the good. And what was there to do but to take it as it comes and to hope, to hope constantly and carnally and with no time to lose.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

The plum-colored night sky was shifting to pink to make room for the day, which looked as though it might turn out “glorious and whimsical,” as the Key West Citizen had promised.

~ Lucy Burdette

With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.With great battles come great victories; great trees come with great tap roots.However, if a little faith can move great mountains, what then will a great faith do? Mysterious things... I guess

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces; it counts for nothing in space or in time. God really doesn't pay any attention to us, so even if he exists, it's as if he didn't. My form of atheism, however, leads inevitably to an acceptance of the inexplicable. Mystery is inseparable from chance, and our whole universe is a mystery. Since I reject the idea of a divine watchmaker (a notion even more mysterious than the mystery it supposedly explains), then I must consent to live in a kind of shadowy confusion. And insofar as no explication, even the simplest, works for everyone, I've chosen my mystery. At least it keeps my moral freedom intact.

~ Luis Buñuel

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

~ Antoine Rivarol

My parents think the longer the name, the more powerful the sorcerer, so they named me Cassandra Morgan Ursula Margaret Scot. You can call me Cassie.

~ Christine Amsden