I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
― E.E. Cummings

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out my front yard is the perfect breeding ground for mushrooms… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. A real adventure. A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
― Chuck Palahniuk

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. Who know a smart phone could take a bad picture? I had no idea and almost deleted it, but the colors were interesting so I held onto it for a while. And, now look, kaleidoscopes! No special lighting or retouching, just a selfie gone wrong from my smart phone.

 

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets…
― Sara Shepard, Flawless

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out my front yard is the perfect breeding ground for mushrooms… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.