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• Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

  Elie Wiesel

  Events, Veils, Moments

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.24, Schocken

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• And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

  Mariama Bâ

  Mom, Mother, Night

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• A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

  Douglas Adams

  Disappear, States, Theory

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• Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Loyalty, Together, Something New

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Thinking, Magic

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

  Kate Atkinson

  Girl, Vocabulary, Emotion

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.135, Random House

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• Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, World, Bliss

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.187, A&C Black

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• It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.

  Julia Quinn

  Soulmate, Heart, Two

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• You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Risk, Way

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• How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Shopping, Rude, Engagement

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

  Melina Marchetta

  Apology, Pride, Keys

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• Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us in the art of making meaning. It widens the space of our inner lives. It is a magical, mysterious, inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Space, Giving

  "Poet's Choice", www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2006.

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• By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."

  Stephen King

  Writing, Order, Looks

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Reality, Vision, Dull

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

  P. D. James

  Suicide, Actors, Mysterious

  P. D. James (2010). “A Taste for Death”, p.278, Vintage

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• Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

  Delphine de Vigan

  War, Eye, Blood

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black

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• The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Heart, Hands, Might

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• As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable.

  Kenneth L. Woodward

  Miracle, Wonder, Astonishing

  Kenneth L. Woodward (2001). “The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• In all Gabriel’s life he could not remember his brother giving even the prettiest of Shadowhunter girls a second glance. Yet he looked at this scarred mundane servant as if she were the sun rising. It was inexplicable, but it was also undeniable. He could see the horror on his brother’s face as Sophie’s good opinion of him shattered before his eyes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Ifs

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Heart, Magic, Sheer

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• The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Dream, Jobs, Eye

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• The bond between parent and child is chemical, fierce, and inexplicable, even if that parent is a sworn killer. This connection cannot be measured; it at once more subtle and more powerful than science.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Children, Powerful, Parent

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Islands, Tasks

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• Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, May, Fool

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