Quotes about Intrigue

Who's that behind those Foster Grants?

Cleo touched Sarah's head. "Cross your arms on the table and sleep awhile." Sarah did as she was told, wishing they could leave. Cleo obviously wasn't ready to leave. She seemed to be having a good time, and she kept staring at Merrick and smiling in a way Sarah had never seen her smile before.

Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.

Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.

You think you know someone your whole life, and he turns out to be a German-gypsy interdimensional dark elf spy who can cloud men's minds. Go figure.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

In this interpretative light Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes.

At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)