“more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then” WorldPersonsHappensAliveHappenedMysteryParticularMiracleShining Book:XAIPE Source: XAIPE
“I always wanted to see what America was like. I had that curiosity in my 20s when I was working in the theatre here [ in London]... there was the mystery of LA and I wondered what happened over there. I wanted to go and check it out and I'm pleased that I have.” WantedAmericaHappenedMysteryCuriosityLondonTheatreChecks Author:Tom Hiddleston
“The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.” TwoStoriesHappensNovelHappenedMysteryMystery Novels Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart
“But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.” KnowsSeemsFaithHappenedMystery Book:Collected Poems 1909-1962 Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962
“Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.” PeopleWritingStoriesLyingFictionFantasyHappenedMysteryEventsScience FictionWesternCoreUntrue Author:George R. R. Martin
“Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayMeanLongEnoughFactsDiesLeftLosesKnowingHappenedMysteryThis WorldDisappearNot KnowingSheerAstonishingStarksMean People Author:Sam Harris
“I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.” FirstsUniverseSoundHappenedMysteryEgoFirst TimeCaughtIronyBlissAngst Author:Toni Bentley
“Love fulfilled sees where we could have gone the way of love before, if we'd known how, and how insecurities limited many of our choices. Love fulfilled perceives new meaning and higher reasons behind many of the mysteries of why things happened as they did. Living from the heart is business - the business of caring for self and others.” IfsWayLoveHeartSelfReasonChoicesLove IsBehindsKnownGoneHappenedMysteryHigherCaringThings HappenPerceiveInsecurityFulfilledOur ChoicesWay Of Love Author:Doc Childre
“We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.” BigsHappenedMysteryAccountsRemainsDescriptionCosmicBangs Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsImportantHardMomentsAnswersForgetHappenedMysteryReaderApproachExplanationImportant Moments Author:John Darnielle
“All I really know in nonfiction is that when I come home, I've got all these notes and I'm trying to figure out what actually happened to me. I usually kind of know what happened, but as you work through the notes, you find that certain scenes write well and some don't even though they should. Those make a constellation of meaning that weirdly ends up telling you what you just went through. It's a slightly different process, but still there's mystery because when you're bearing down on the scenes, sometimes you find out they mean something different than what you thought.” KnowsShouldWritingTryingWellsKindMeanStillsDifferentEndsSometimesHomeCertainProcessHappenedMysteryFiguresSceneNotesComing HomeNonfictionConstellations Author:George Saunders
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” IfsStatesHumorFunnyScienceUniverseEducationHappenedMysteryTheoryDiscoveryDisappearReplacedBizarreGalaxyPsychedelicInexplicableMystery Of LifeHitchhikers Guide To The GalaxyHitchhikers GuideHitchhikingSubtle AtheistFunny ScienceAstronomy And UniverseInfinite UniverseThings Are Not What They Seem Author:Douglas Adams