First time Quote by Stella Gibbons

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden…

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

“Perhaps the habit of intrigue is catching--in the air or the walls. Like secret passages, only in the mind.”

— Susan Kenney

“I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations, while unexpected…

— Thomas Ligotti

“We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense…

— Alain de Botton

“Anticipation is its most effective, most seductive, when the next moment remains a mystery.”

— Jason Luke

“Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious. ”

— Joseph Conrad

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

— Mavis Gallant

“Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows…

— Hilary Mantel

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with…

— Ian Bogost

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act. —MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI”

— Susan Cain

“The presence of the other, which can be very threatening, becomes, in play, a delightful source of curiosity, and this curiosity contributes toward the…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“It is within the commercial realm of advertising that the drama of Otherness finds expression. Encounters with Otherness are clearly marked as more exciting,…

— Juliet Schor