Middle Grade Mystery Quotes

#1. Though the rain had pitter-pattered, then pelted the carriages during the drive had stopped, the ground was wet and boggy, sucking at feet as though hoping to keep anyone from ever leaving the estate.

Jessica Lawson

#2. Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

Vidkun Quisling

#3. It's true, I'm impressed with myself, almost daily. If I don't impress myself then how am I ever to feel accomplished?"
"Who cares if you impress others?"
"Indeed. Others' opinions hardly matter, but one's own sense of accomplishment is paramount, is it not?

Ridley Pearson

#4. Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

Denis Markell

#5. Of course. Treasure hunts make much better stories when there's treasure at the end.

Eric Berlin

#6. It was an exact fit, and for the briefest of moments, she had the odd wish that she could be key-shaped and could find a space where she fit so perfectly.

Jessica Lawson

#7. When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Stephen Richards

#8. He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon's face that chased him across the sea.

Brooke Burgess

#9. ... whenever you were in a fix or at a crossroads in an investigation, there were always two choices: to do nothing and worry, or to take some sort of action and deal with its associated risks.

Jessica Lawson

#10. Who hides a ring? Who sets up this whole cockamamie production with puzzle pieces and treasure hunts and who knows what else over a ring?

Eric Berlin

#11. Winston Breen was solving a puzzle, but then Winston Breen was always solving a puzzle.

Eric Berlin

#12. Passion is no ordinary word

Graham Parker

#13. Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.

Eric Berlin

#14. The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.

S.W. Lothian

#15. Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#16. When I was outside, you were saying why you are comming home, why you won't go home??
When now I'm home why I'm not going outside... wtf????????

Deyth Banger