Mystery Quotes

I smile, she blushes.I smirk, she slaps me on the arm, softly.I breathe, because it's easy around her.

What does myself now say to me?"Open the door of Mystery.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

Love is always the right decision.

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.

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

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.

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!

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

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

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

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

Adventure is my middle name.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas—that’s the rule

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

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

Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!

How do you solve a case without a face?

If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

Everyone has their secrets, and there are shadows following us all.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood.

Three guys and a girl were leaning against a black raised pickup ... I had to do a double take as this group was nothing like I had ever seen before.

Remember! Reality's an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold! Byeeee!

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.

You can't know people, only their names.

That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If only her voice didn’t sound so young.

Immy knocked on his open door. "Mr. Mallett?"The look on his narrow face was pained. "What's with the Mr. Mallett? When you don't call me Mike, it's usually trouble.

There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

...in the middle of the field, Harry suddenly stopped and looked back. Mr. Chad was all alone in the creepy woods. He could take care of himself...couldn't he? Of course he could, he was a teacher.

Growing up in a family of gamblers, daredevils and practical jokers, I've learned a lot about timing and its first cousin, dumb luck, concepts I was introduced to while still in the womb.

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Everyday is a mystery

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