339 Quotes About Mystery-suspense

  • Author Nicola Griffith
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    Parties are like life-you think that what you see is all there is, until you discover the next layer, a whole other culture that’s going on all around you but you never knew existed.

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  • Author Nicola Griffith
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    Sometimes I used my fingers, digging down into the rich dirt, feeling it push under my nails. No doubt I’d regret it later, but it was good to feel so much life under my hands.

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  • Author Nicola Griffith
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    There was a sharp, smoky undertone to her scent now; adrenalin was pumping and she was beginning to tense up. My muscles were loose and warm and my heartbeat steady and strong.

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  • Author Nicola Griffith
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    The realization of what she had done, the exhilaration of her own strength rushed into her, like champagne rushing to fill lead crystal. She shimmered with it, she fizzed. I wanted to lift her in both hands, drink her down, drain her, feel the foam inside me, circling around heart, lungs, stomach.

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  • Author Nicola Griffith
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    Being capable of using violence to defend yourself did not make you a bad person. Being dead because you couldn’t did not make you a good one.

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  • Author Nicola Griffith
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    Norway: a solid world aganist which to lay myself and make a mask that could be examined, could be held up in comparison with who I used to be, before.

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