..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.
Bill PronziniWe were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
John D. MacDonaldTags: mystery crime-fiction great-opening-lines
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: love faith mystery harmony
Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.
June AhernTags: mystery scotland mothers daughters san-francisco immigrants
Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
P.D. JamesTags: life psychology secret mystery mask
A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'
(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.)
[Diary entry, February 13 1756]
Tags: hell mystery argument absurdity infinite excuse cover divinity-of-jesus
Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-'
She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.
Tags: love mystery detective noir beautiful reconciliation
He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.
Arnaldur IndriðasonTags: mystery
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'
'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'
'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'
'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
Tags: humor sherlock-holmes mystery dog curious silver blaze incident
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.
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