#mystery

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#containing #face #invested #like #lover

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beautiful country #began #between #country #end

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#creates #desire #man #mystery #understand

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#artist #deepen #job #mystery

If he can't reach you he can't hit you If he can't hit you he can't hurt you ↗

— Arun D. Ellis

#fighting #martial-arts #mystery #thriller #war

We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character. ↗

— John Dickson Carr

#love

Nice sweater Bob, does it come in mens? ↗

— Doyle MacBrayne

#men

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

#commonplace #each #granted #great #holds