Short Mystery Quotes

#1. But the thing that ... that I touched ... " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.

Margery Williams

#2. Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.

R. Barri Flowers

#3. Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he'd never heard of Adolf Hitler.

Jane Sunday

#4. Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

Stefania Mattana

#5. I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.

John Green

#7. Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn't look like the proper place for you, said Chase.

Stefania Mattana

#8. A great writer is a great writer ... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

Phil Klay

#9. I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

William Shakespeare

#10. Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any.

Elaine Pagels

#11. In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

May Sarton

#12. Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.

Frances Brody

#13. We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.

Nnedi Okorafor

#14. I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

Dan Chaon

#15. Life's too short for cheap beer--or cheap men.

Daryl Anderson

#16. O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so grotesque, you are the revealer of human ugliness. You uncover all shortcomings, all deformities and all defects. You turn every face touched by you into a caricature.

Guy De Maupassant

#17. On the Writing Process:
When in doubt, take it out.,

Barbara DaCosta

#18. A Mystery in short is an invitation to the mind. For it means that there is an inexhaustible well of Truth from which the mind may drink and drink again in the certainty that the well will never run dry, that there will always be water for the mind's thirst.

Frank Sheed

#19. The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It's the karma effect, Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

Stefania Mattana

#20. Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side.

Stefania Mattana

#21. We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

John Connolly

#22. Life is nothing short of a phenomenon. In every sense life is mysterious and unfathomable.

Bryant McGill

#23. The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

Baruch Spinoza

#24. In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

Paul Neilan

#25. Piper glanced at the digital clock. "So ... we have exactly one hour to find your runaway table, get back your synco-whatsit, and install it in this engine, or the Argo II explodes, destroying Bunker Nine and most of the woods." "Basically," Leo said.

Rick Riordan

#26. I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on a sense of mystery. And this boy is not ordinary. He is wild and he has strange and fanciful perceptions. [p. 153]

Kim Edwards

#27. The hermit said, 'This is the way to be strong: when temptations start to speak in your mind do not answer them but get up, pray, do penance, and say "Son of God, have mercy upon me."

Benedicta Ward

#28. So, Mystery Lady? What's it going to be? You're going to spend your short little life playing by their rules, or are you going to take your chance?

Lili St. Crow

#29. Isabel frowned. "Alma Trumbo, you did not just dig up a human bone from our flowerbed. It's got to be a dinosaur bone, dinky or not."
"A dinosaur bone, eh?" The short, stout Alma gave her tall, slim sister the old up and down. "What then, are we the Flintstones living in Bedrock?

Ed Lynskey

#30. Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

Richard M. Nixon

#31. I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

Kristen Bell

#32. What makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)

Roland Smith

#33. It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl's boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

Stefania Mattana

#34. Any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

Sue Grafton

#35. Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.

Michael Timmins

#36. We are all simply reacting, played by events that occurred centuries before.

Marti Melville

#37. Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.

Thomas Watson

#38. There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2

Stefania Mattana

#39. I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

Vijender Singh

#40. I'm either on the cusp of greatness or the edge of insanity.

Meb Bryant

#41. The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

Eudora Welty

#42. I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

James Rollins