#intrigue

Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," Attolia said dryly. Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#intrigue #love #romance #humor

It seemed that for every evil they defeated, worse took its place, but Vaughn banished the thought that this all might be a cruel game, a hoax played on the… ''No! I know what true Goodness, true Life, true Love is. Besides, this is too miserable to be a game…unless demons…NO! Besides, even if I was some kind of pawn, well, then this game piece would rebel! ↗

— Darryl Steven Markowitz

#intrigue #introspection #inspirational

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. ↗

— Sarah Dessen Along for the Ride

#difficuly #feelings #infatuation #intrigue #joke

This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin. ↗

— Victoria Collins

#history #intrigue #life #love #love

The dead do not see, unless they look from a brighter place than this darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night. ↗

— Stephen King

#intrigue #inspirational

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#age #answered #because #father #had

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. ↗

— Black Kettle

#each #friends #intrigues #keep #now

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#dead #dead end #end #intrigued #longer

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#coped #country #how #intrigued #might

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #beauty