"The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild."

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"The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild."

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"I think you still love me, but we can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong."

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"Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt."

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"It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts."

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"Success is the shyest creature, blushes when you court it, jilts you when you propose to it, reneges later and perhaps blushes again."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"The known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"Do you know where the dead spirits depart to?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is a mystery,' said Detritus.Vimes grinned mirthlessly. It was a mystery. And he didn't like mysteries. Mysteries had a way of getting bigger if you didn't solve them quickly. Mysteries pupped."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Mystery, Curiosity, Problem, Truth

"Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

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"I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools."

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"Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell."

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