quotes about Mystery Novels

“Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?”

“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”

“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.”

“The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.40, Courier Corporation

“President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.”

“A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.”

Source : "House targets cybercriminals". www.wired.com. June 16, 2002.

“So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.”

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

“However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.”

“People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.”

Source : "Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loughlin)". Book by Michael Robotham, 2010.