2,752 Quotes About Mystery

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.

Sheriff Fox was running his fingers through his thin hair. In a few short years, he’d look bald as a peeled apple. The Snoop sisters and their sidekick, the town’s bag lady no less, had traipsed into his office without knocking first. His admin (he couldn’t remember their names to save his life) had ushered them in, and they’d just dumped this hot potato into his lap.

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

Thanks to Dashiell Hammett. "He was thin, walked with a stick, and was the only private dick I knew who used the pockets of his sport coat. Maybe that means something, maybe not." Ramone Ramone, 2013

Die Bilder, die seine lebhafte Schilderung in ihrer Fantasie wachriefen, waren verführerischer als eine Tasse heiße Schokolade nach einem langen Spaziergang im Schnee. Wie konnte er es wagen!?

To speak a language that was as intimate and free as certain dreams, saying darkly, thrillingly, My cock inside of you. Your come in my mouth ... He focused on the boy’s slim, tight hips; with the tip of his tongue he tasted an asshole’s bitter, forbidden mystery.

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

Jensen looked concerned."I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?" He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch.

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