Mystery Quotes

I started to crawl off; then I remembered my leftover pizza, and I peeled off the salami, pepperoni, and anchovies and placed them on the CD tray (whicn no one used these days with flash drives around)on Boone's computer. I hit the close button and watched the smelly part of my delicious dinner slide away. Boone would have a great time wondering 'where's that smell coming from?

~ Duffy Brown

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

~ Victor Hugo

David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them.

~ John Connolly

The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.

~ K.j. Bishop

If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another.

~ Robert G. Demers

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

~ Virginia Mckevitt

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

~ Travis Berketa

There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!

~ Rakesh Ranjan

Emilia typed in her password and checked her inbox. A review by the Secretariat de Gobernación of drug cartel activities across Mexico. A report of a robbery in Acapulco’s poorest barrio neighborhood that would probably never be investigated. Notice of a reward for a child kidnapped in Ixtapa who was almost certainly dead by now. Her phone rang. It was the desk sergeant saying that a Señor Rooker wished to see her. Emilia avoided Rico’s eye as she said, yes, the sergeant could let el señor pass into the detectives’ area.A minute later Rucker was standing by her desk, sweat beaded on his forehead. The starched collar of his shirt was damp. “There’s a head,” he said breathlessly. “Someone’s head in a bucket on the hood of my car.

~ Carmen Amato

Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning

~ Marvin Amazon

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

~ Darmie O-Lujon

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.

~ Paulo Coelho

I want to keep you, till the end of days.

~ J.d. Robb

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

~ Agatha Christie

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

~ Lauren Willig

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

~ Louise Bogan

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.

~ Cassandra Clare

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

~ Stephen King

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

~ Lauren Willig

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

~ Lauren Willig

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

~ Beth Fantaskey

With riddles as black as coals, and answers as invisible as our past, I can only depend upon the crest of the rolling wave I now traversed; a romance worshiped only by the dreamer in us all, a psithurism of trust making its way through the years of our ascension to one day climb above the kaleidoscopic canopy of this mortal coil.

~ Dave Matthes

My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.

~ Colin Meloy

It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

~ Lauren Willig

That could be a very sexy story.

~ Lyndee Walker

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

~ Milan Kundera

But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.

~ Lyndee Walker

I can't explain my feelings for him...they're strange. But he says it is why we are so much alike, why I dream of him. He calls it The Craving.

~ Nadège Richards

Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave.

~ Jody Shields

Know this much:regret nothing.Each part of your journey is essential to the whole.The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination.Ninetah,the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler

~ Jenna Lindsey

Anticipation tingled in my stomach: the kind of tingle that at first you don’t know if it’s a good tingle or a bad tingle – just a tingle.

~ Terry Weible Murphy

I ran out the door but it was to late..... i felt a sharp pain in my back as i heard the gun shoot

~ Andy Lane

It’s still all “ifs” “buts” and “maybes”.’ ‘Maybe,’ I said. ‘But if what I’m saying is correct …

~ Terry Weible Murphy

She turned back to the door fishing her key out of her purse. Once the key was in the lock, the door flew open revealing darkness. All she had time for was a squeak before she was abruptly pulled in the house by her shirt. The door slammed shut and locked behind her with a clank of sliding metal.

~ Nicole Rae

And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would take some practice.

~ Lombard Philip Lombard

Also, SKULLS. Gosh you love SKULLS. There is a good SKULL at the heart of any mystery, haunting its EVERY PAGE. That is what you always say. Or at least, it is what you always HOPE.

~ Andrew Hussie

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.

~ Arlene J. Chai

Meaning, yes -- I don't really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think it's weird a fictional character's telling this story, you ain't seen what happened, yet.

~ Kyle Michel Sullivan

And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception, just a friend or something else…perhaps it was time to find out.

~ Melanie Cusick-Jones