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“We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries to grab at something greater, to live a heroic life, if only for a day or a week o...”
“I couldn’t very well make a special delivery to the door of the constabulary now could I? And he’d have made the perfect scapegoat. That aura of misery he wraps himself in. So Byronesque. He’s too ...”
“She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.”
“Before he turned again the to the car his eye was caught by a small clump of unknown flowers. The pale pinkish white heads rose from a mossy pad on top of the wall and trembled delicately in the li...”
“It’s all very well to have your eight suspects parading in their endless ring-around-the-rosebush outside the library. That’s fine. But give some sensible reason why they were there. If you must sh...”
“It is a mystery,' said Detritus.Vimes grinned mirthlessly. It was a mystery. And he didn't like mysteries. Mysteries had a way of getting bigger if you didn't solve them quickly. Mysteries pupped.”
“Izzy felt as though she’d wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic.”
“With life, everything that’s needed to be known can be known by human. No mystery can be hidden from you if you really try to look into it.”
“To my editors, I graciously thank you. I now know “is” and “was” aren't the same thing. It's the periods and commas that got me. Can't see the darn things.”
“You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still...”
“That,” Adriana said, “is a puzzling mystery that must be solved.”
“An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.”
“What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.”
“A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.”
“It’s the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what’s beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.”
“The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, one morning or one evening, looked at the world and felt the presence of something greater. They ...”
“She loves mysteries so much, she became one.”
“...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.”
“You don't die of a broken heart, it only wears you down—just another rainy day.” – Grey Daze”
“You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.”
