“Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.” MenMindChildrenFormMysteryFiguresWindFlowerDevilMovedIntentionHillsBeastHeroicElsewhereTwilightProtectedPersistWovenObsoleteStatureDemigods Book:The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell Source: The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell
“After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.” TwoBookWrittenMysteryMovedHistoricalSeriesGuidesLengthVolumeSeventeenPasturesQuiz Author:Caroline Lawrence
“Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned.” EndsSometimesScienceReligionAcceptingProgressMysteryMovedAbandonScorned Author:Loren Eiseley
“I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.” DesireGrowsMysteryPossibilityMovedAspirationMystery Of LifeNew Possibilities Author:Rod Stryker
“She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.” IfsMindStillsMomentsMightActionFacesMovingSecretMysteryEffectsMovedIntentionFingersWaveInstantPretendingBentDividingCrooksWaves Breaking Author:Ian Mcewan
“The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.” KnowsHandsMysteryMovedFleshEndlessInstantInfinityInchesDelightfulFutilityMoved On Book:The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1) Source: The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)