#mysteries

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. ↗

— Nancy Springer

#funny #holmes #mysteries #nancy #springer

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way. Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#following-your-dreams #following-your-heart #god #god-s-mysteries #dreams

That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd #Books ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#in-the-shadow-of-sadd #noir #scandinavian-mysteries #steen-langstrup #life

It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of sometimes pathetic lives. ↗

— P.D. James

#murder-mysteries #life

There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?” The Maid The Informer by Steen Langtrup ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#noir-fiction #scandinavian-mysteries #world-war- #thriller

Apparently, once you got used to regular and spectacular sex, your body had a mind of its own (so to speak) when it was deprived of that recreation; to say nothing of missing the hugging and cuddling part. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#southern-vampire-mysteries #vampire #sookie-stackhouse

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#charlaine-harris #club-dead #sookie-stackhouse-series #the-southern-vampire-mysteries #true-blood

It’s the unknown that draws people. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#adventures #attraction #discovery #fascination #love-of-the-unknown

All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO’s wife can go around worrying about that stuff. People like us from the projects have to play by a different set of rules.” George Hanson In The Shadow of Sadd ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#in-the-shadow-of-sadd #scandinavian-mysteries #steen-langstrup #life

Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports. ↗

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

#imagination