The Untwist/Quotes

""Of course, the last person to see him never commits the crime. That would make it too easy. One of these days I shall write a book in which two men are seen to walk down a cul-de-sac, and there is a shot and one man is found murdered and the other runs away with a gun in his hand, and after twenty chapters stinking with red herrings, it turns out that the man with the gun did it after all.""

- Lord Peter Wimsey, The Five Red Herrings

""Keaton was a cop. To a cop the explanation is never that complicated. It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right.""

- Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects

""You can't just throw stuff like this into the story out of nowhere...! Where's the foreshadowing?! I - I mean, okay, so Zazie has been the most suspicious member of our class since God-knows-when, but still...!""

- Chisame, Mahou Sensei Negima

""How about we have the word 'twist' written in thirty-foot neon lights! You're being so subtle!""

- Film Brain