Quotes about Intrigue

What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.

In this particular Billy was a striking instance that the arch interferer, the envious marplot of Eden, still has more or less to do with every human consignment to this planet of Earth. In every case, one way or another he is sure to slip in his little card, as much as to remind us—I too have a hand here. The

You know, there's a thing that stumps me. You're the coldest man I know. And I can't understand why - knowing that you're actually a fiend in your quiet sort of way - why I always feel, when I see you, that you're the most life-giving person I've ever met.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

I didn't get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo's pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed the video call to my mother.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.