#ystery

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#mystery #men

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you From entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines ("Zone") ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#billboard #catalogs #church #city #confession

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#mystery #money

I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. - Chynna Lennox ↗

— Jim Cooper

#humor #mystery #movies

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie. ↗

— Jeannie Walker

#murder-mystery #thriller #true-crime #movies

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#brooks #creation #destruction #earth #environment

I am grateful for the magic, mystery and majesty of nature – my loyal friend and companion – always there, welcoming and waiting for me to come; to be healed. ↗

— Tom North

#magic #mystery #nature #nature

I play to win and if it looks like I've lost, its only because its not over yet. ↗

— Kiera Dellacroix

#conspiracy #mystery #romantic-suspense #romantic

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight." ---from my newest release "Garnet" If you have not read this little book you are in for a treat! http://nancybbrewer.com/garnet-order-... ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-mystery #historical-romance #historical-romance

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes