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mysteries Quotes

20 of the best book quotes about mysteries
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“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.”
Cormac McCarthy
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Blood Meridian
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Judge Holden
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secrets
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earth's secrets
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“Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?”
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“These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”
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″‘The clever thieves,’ Kyle read from the book, ‘took up residence in an abandoned dress factory next door to the Gold Leaf Bank and spent weeks tunneling from its basement in to the bank vault.‘”
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“Anything you don’t understand, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.”
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“Oh, he is a delightful mystery that I can’t wait to solve.”
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“The way to outsmart death, Elisa dear, is to turn into something else, says Elisa’s grandmother, an actress with a flair for the dramatic. But when it seems as if Nonna might actually be changing literally, Elisa must uncover a series of mysteries.”
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“If, when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at the door, Watching the full-starred heavens that winter sees, Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more, ‘He was one who had an eye for such mysteries’?”
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“I found myself quickly drawn into the story, feeling for Gill as she explored her new environment nervously, expecting constant reproofs or worse, puzzled when she is shown kindness.”
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Inside, something is moving...tongues of luminous color lap against the glass...coiling and curling...begging to be released.
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The Vampaneze Lord is the ruler of the Vampaneze. The Vampaneze Lord is decided when a normal human enters the Coffin of Fire is engulfed in flames and comes out unharmed.
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“Not only that, even though he is small and looks girlish Johnny knows just how to deal with anybody, however clever or though. Before long, Johnny is Chris’s best friend, even thought he’s full of mysteries.”
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The woman is afraid - the child is not hers but her master’s - but she gives her baby anyway, hoping desperately it will have a life better than her own.
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A very nice book about the need to be loved and important to someone, about time from different perspective with a little sparkle of mystery.
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″‘You saw them? You’ve seen them?’ She looked at me with astonishment and then drew me into her arms. ‘It’s the secret of Thackers.’
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“An ongoing problem with Messenger’s discoveries was that many authorities, including myself, considered they were not all accounted for.”
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“I did not move a muscle. I lay there thinking someone was behind me, in that darkness. But nothing happened. No movement. No voice. I started to count in my head. Still nothing, even after I passed a hundred.”
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“Doors crash open, and strange signs appear, written in an archaic hand. James finds that the ghost is the spirit of Thomas Kempe.”
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“The thing about Shakespeare is, he’s so eloquent…He speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.”
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“For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round” - 1 Nephi 10:19”

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