Mystery Quotes

When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.

It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.

I, myself, love complications and mystery which I didn't notice that I had become one.

The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them they’re not seeing what they think they’re seeing.

When the sun shines you cannot see the moon, " he said. "But when the sun is gone ah, when the sun is gone.

When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles." quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery

I know you. Perversity is your aphrodisiac.

You don't die of a broken heart, it only wears you down—just another rainy day.” – Grey Daze

After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!

Only the trees, only the trees. Like a key they see beyond the mystery, waiting patiently ever holding me while I hold the sky.

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.

...when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.

Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know.

She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.

I only swing for one girl. But if she's into a certain kind of kink, who am I to deny her such pleasantries?"~ Luke Wagner

Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

science enables you to look things differently.

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

Weird is my personality, Complicated are my words and Mystery I am but those what gets you to like me.

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.

Where you been, girl?” Harvey answered. “I’ve been sendin’ you twits for the last hour.

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law

Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is, insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps, all Crosswords have a solution, and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense.

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

But the thing that . . . that I touched . . . " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know, " said Herrick.

It's never too late to achieve your dreams

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

It was quite elementary, ' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror, ' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.

The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing.

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.

Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed.

It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

I win.

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there’s mystery, there’s hope.

I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us.

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.