2,752 Quotes About Mystery

  • Author Orhan Pamuk
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    What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

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  • Author Ali Smith
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    But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll probably find out – and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out – what happened. And if we don't, we feel cheated.

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  • Author Lily Harper Hart
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    You can't come in."Luna Morgan met her daughter's plaintive gaze with a blank one of her own. "What do you mean we can't come in?""I have a guest," Ivy said."Is he naked?" Max asked, wrinkling his nose."Who?""Your guest," Max said."It's not a man," Ivy said, rolling her eyes. "Get your mind out of the gutter.

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