Intrigue Quotes

“We don’t always like what’s good for us,” she said. “Especially at first.”
― Erin Beaty, The Traitor's Kiss

“She’d once asked Father if he was disappointed his only child was a daughter, and he had looked her in the eye and said. Never. “Without girls, there would be no more boys.”
― Erin Beaty, The Traitor's Kiss

“Every house has a story. Ours is a ghost story. It’s also a lie. And now that yet another person has died within these walls, it’s finally time to tell the truth.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“...they can make up their own mind. Kle loved that expression. "'Make up' as in fabricating as in creating your own mind. Pretty radical phrase if you give it a moment.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Into the Forest

“So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

“The phrasing annoyed Sage. As long as she was pretty and in a good mood, her husband would love her? People needed love most when they weren't at their best.”
― Erin Beaty, The Traitor's Kiss

“Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.”
― Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

“How much can you forgive?" she whispers, stepping closer to me, touching my arm.

I step back a bit. "It really depends.”
― Jes Drew, In the Rogue

“The first rule of any game was to assume you could win, even if you had to hunt through the universe’s cracks for a strategy, even if you had to turn the pieces inside-out, even if you had to tell so many lies to the opponent that they couldn’t figure out which way was up.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun

“If perception is limited by experience and knowledge, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“. She was beautiful, and her temperament seemed much better than his first wife did. Arman stopped in the middle of the Windsor knot on his tie. Who was he trying to kid, he thought. An enraged rabid pit bull in heat would have had a better temperament then his first wife.”
― Grace Willows

“Of such things dreams are made of, he thought. But then again what are dreams but wishes come true. -Grace Willows”
― Grace Willows

“You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge.

I'm not trying to be a challenge.

It's one of the things that makes you one.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Child, use your brain. Think on your feet. Being polite and reserved is how we were raised, but we learned the hard way that the rest of the world isn't that way. I've perceived from conversation that you comprehend such things, like that swordplay with whatsit... that Titmouse, or whatever his name was. In other words, child, propriety has its place, but don't let your guard down. In real life, you never know who the plagers of Intrigue really are, or what they stand for.”
― Kristen Britain, Green Rider

“The death of a loved one is a terrible thing. Even more terrible is the death of the only dear person; the one who shares your every breath.”
― Lina J. Potter, The Royal Court

“Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

“She had no idea what she was asking. If he tried to help her, he knew what would happen.

He'd have a mission again. A reason to reconnect with the world.

And connections meant pain.”
― Elizabeth Heiter, K-9 Defense

“COUNT. What’s to stop you taking her with you to London?

FIGARO. A man who was married and had to be away so much? I’d never hear the end of it.

COUNT. But with your qualities and brains you could climb the ladder and end up with an important government post one of these days.

FIGARO. Brains? Climb the ladder? Your Lordship must think I’m stupid. Second-rate and grovelling, that’s the thing to be, and then the world’s your oyster.

COUNT. All you’d have to do is take a few lessons in politics from me.

FIGARO. I know what politics is.

COUNT. Like you know the key to the English language?

FIGARO. Not that it’s anything to boast about. It means pretending you don’t know what you do know and knowing what you don’t, listening to what you don’t understand and not hearing what you do, and especially, claiming you can do more than you have the ability to deliver. More often that not, it means making a great secret of the fact that there are no secrets; locking yourself in your inner sanctum where you sharpen pens and give the impression of being profound and wise, whereas you are, as they say, hollow and shallow; playing a role well or badly; sending spies everywhere and rewarding the traitors; tampering with seals, intercepting letters, and trying to dignify your sordid means by stressing your glorious ends. That’s all there is to politics, and you can have me shot if it’s not.

COUNT. But what you’ve defined is intrigue.

FIGARO. Call it politics, intrigue, whatever you want. But since to me the two things are as alike as peas in a pod, I say good luck to whoever has anything to do with either. ‘Truly, I love my sweetheart more’, as old King Henry’s song goes.”
― Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother

“Make no mistake, Princess. I’m no hero.”
― Kait Ballenger, Wicked Cowboy Wolf

“I warned you I was no hero.”
“You were,” she said. “You were once, for me, but not now. You failed to tell me that you weren’t just a villain. You’re worse.” She struggled to hold back her tears. “You’re a monster.”
― Kait Ballenger, Wicked Cowboy Wolf

“Arrgh, my dad's here to pick me up. How can he be so insensitive to intrigue?”
― John Allison, Giant Days, Vol. 5

“Jungle sex,” I panted.
“Let’s go swimming,” Shade said at the same time.
We stared at each other. He grinned like a loon. I blinked and then grinned also.
“I like the way you thing, starshine.”
― Amanda Bouchet, Starbreaker

“Would you believe me if I told you an entire world was at your fingertips? What if I told you that all pain and suffering in your life could come to an end once and for all? Would you be intrigued? Would you smile? Would you weep in reverence? Would you find beauty in the smallest pleasures in life again? Would you rise from the ashes to conquer your demons and find your truest, most Divine Self? I did, and so can you.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

“Mari's original plan to have the Queen play coy with the King was, she now realized, woefully inadequate—a milkmaid's game, played against actual military commanders.”
― Dawn Patitucci, The Queen's Prophet

“Nicolas was dressed exquisitely tonight, with his usual air of effortlessness, in a silk doublet the color of blackberries and dotted with freshwater pearls, snug as a fruitskin against his tiny torso, and a ruff so crisply starched and diaphanous it looked to have been spun from sugar.”
― Dawn Patitucci, The Queen's Prophet

“-Det som tar seg ut på isen, går slett ikke an i stuen!”
― Alexander L. Kielland, Tre Par. Lystspil i Tre Akter

“You're full of hashish! You been bothered lately with your head, Mr. Harris?”
― Frederick Ferdinand Moore, The Devil's Admiral

“Please tell me about it. You have been honest with me about my appearance, and that is of great help to me. It allows me to be prepared, to keep my composure. Something must have happened within the royal family before I arrived here. You must help me understand, so I can again prepare for whatever challenges it may bring."
"Dear Lady Lalak, much has happened and much has passed. You need not be troubled about such past events. . . We are still trying to recover from the Kan attack."
"Yes, I am learning of the Kan attack and its aftermath. What I speak of, I believe, is more personal to Pakal. If you know, I plead to you for the truth. I can bear knowing, but I cannot bear being kept ignorant of things that will affect my future here.”
― Leonide Martin, The Mayan Red Queen: Tz'aakb'u Ahau of Palenque

“This ia fast-paced page-turner with suspense in every chapter.”
― Raymond Knowles

“In that moment, his expression changes, geniality sliding away into something between awe and dread.
“Zoe?” he splutters.”
― Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos