#myst

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable ↗

— Ben Elton

#beauty

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome. ↗

— Stephen King

#stephen-king #thriller #under-the-dome #thriller

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again. ↗

— Steve Hamilton

#mystery #suspense #thriller #thriller

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#faith #inspiration #mysticism #experience

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#dreaming #mystery #real #dreams

I like the unknown. I like mystery. ↗

— Eric Bana

#like #mystery #unknown

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. ↗

— Robert Barany

#contemporaries #either #find #great #mystery

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#drama #empty #fiction #filled #jodi-picoult

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#invisible #love #moon #mystery #passion

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#education #how #i #important #know