313 quotes found
“Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.”
“Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009”
“I win.”
“Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.”
“I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.”
“Gino refilled my glass. What a night. Booze, broads, and a barroom brawl.”
“Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can mak...”
“A puzzle is not a dead-end.”
“The waitress came by with a pot of black coffee. She was a smallish woman, about forty, still had some of her looks left, but she had a hardness to her face. Money and bad men were the only things ...”
“She wouldn't have died if I hadn't taught her how to fall.”
“And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.”
“She killed to get the dream she wanted, then found out it didn't want her back.”
“Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.”
“Here,there,every where”
“But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?”
“A mystery." He smiled, his teeth a white gleam in the shadowed face. "I like mysteries.""Don't you have enough to do without going looking for trouble?""I especially like mysteries that involve tro...”
“People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them.”
“No one wants to take the risk.They just have to...”
“February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.”
“It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.”
