Action Quotes

She had every right to be harsh, mean, and independent. Every damn right. And yet he had a feeling that she needed care more than anyone else in the world.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

The others could believe that she was that way because she lost her parents so early, but Peter knew better. She was strong, confident, and never broken.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

He’s focused on something—or someone—over her shoulder.The harmonious warbling of the rainforest morphs into organized disarray, as if a primitive maestro has thrown conducting to the wind and let Mother Nature take over. Birds trill a warning as the breeze rustles the plant life. Wings flutter overhead. A crescendo of stridulation changes tempo, the insects seemingly performing a sonata as the rhythm shifts yet again.“What—who is it?” Summer asks in a strained whisper.His gaze lands on her, his brows furrowing. “The Forsaken.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the results.

~ Lynn Blackmar

There are simply some laws we must transgress, no matter the penalty.

~ Eli Hinze

Why are you in my room?”“Because I can be.”“You shouldn’t be.”“Save it, Rochester. You broke my nose.”“Does it hurt?”He lifted a hand toward his face and dropped it. “You could say that.”“Good.”He nudged a tray on the floor with his boot. It had oatmeal, toast, and orange juice on it. “Hungry?”Honor’s stomach growled. “No.”Ryder’s lips turned up in a fleeting sadistic smile. He kicked the tray across the room. It hit the wall and overturned. “Good.

~ Lindy Zart

Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.

~ Lynn Blackmar

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

~ Lynn Blackmar

People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we’re different, and those we try to get information from put us on an even lower level than the ones they don’t notice. They don’t believe we’re even capable of being a threat, and they misstep more than they might with someone they simply don’t know.

~ Lynn Blackmar

I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.I was fine till I met you, he says.

~ Moira Young

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

~ A. Ashley Straker

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

~ Henry David Thoreau

We are going to hell together. But we're coming back alive. Don't forget that.

~ Atsuko Asano

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...

~ Jeanne Duprau

Keep a spur handy.

~ Meg Mims

Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.

~ David Lucero

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.-Ian Fleming

~ Swapna Rajput

May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!

~ Henry Mosquera

If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.

~ Gary T. Smith

It's only crazy if we fail.

~ Henry Mosquera

I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.

~ Henry Mosquera

This is the Rock, sweetheart,” the owner added. “There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.

~ Henry Mosquera

There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.

~ Henry Mosquera

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.

~ Henry Mosquera

Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.

~ Dean F. Wilson

You look like you’ve been on a month-long bender. Have you?”“No, Ken, I have not. I’ve just had a long week.” Walked the streets of a city bathed in blood and stood amid a hundred thousand corpses. Negotiated a three-way peace treaty among opposing factions of a warring alien species who’d previously held me captive. Bullied the Metigen leadership into doing my bidding. Found out we’re not the real humans, and the real humans are currently enslaving the real universe. Oh, and I think I’m addicted to my ship. How was your week? “Nothing a shower and some food won’t fix.

~ G.s. Jennsen

Victor spread his hands and beamed. “There’s a truckload of supplies sitting on a dock in Madera. We got food, medicine, and machines ready to roll. All we need is a pigheaded truck driver with giant cojones and no brains to ram the stuff past the blockade and save the day.” The pilot leaned back and put his hands behind his head. “Naturally, I thought of Abel Yeager.

~ Scott Bell

When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear

~ S.f. Chandler

I don’t know if I can.”I splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. “It’s easier if you don’t think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can’t touch you. And before long, you’ll forget what you were worried about.”Her lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. “Is that what you do?”“It works.” Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed. ~ Caleb

~ Pippa Dacosta

My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was. - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL

~ Almney King

I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy.

~ Almney King

Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

~ Rick Yancey

Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles – where wrinkles meet Tinseltown. For famous pug actor Kato Rhyan, acting isn't about fame, it's a part of him buried deep within his soul; and he's not about to let anything stand in his way of becoming the first animal to win an Oscar for Best Actor, even if it means taking on a role that requires a wrinkly dog's worst nightmare -- Botox injections. Dr. Carrington looked as though the wind had been knocked out of her. “Why would anyone ever want to go back to wrinkles?” she stammered.“Well, obviously, we only agreed to do this because of the role. His face needs to be smooth for the fur extensions. But come on, you didn’t really expect him to want to stay wrinkle-free. Honestly, he’s a pug. They’re supposed to be wrinkly.”“I mean, I know it can be done, but no one has ever asked me to do it before. Plus, I have a reputation to uphold. This is Beverly Hills. The last thing I need is the reputation that I can’t keep my wrinkles straight.” Rhys Ella, Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles, 2014.

~ Rhys Ella

Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?

~ M.j. Mandoki

Everyone should see at least one street race before they die.

~ Amanda Lance

Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.

~ Peter Duysings

Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early.” I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. “Well, a lady isn’t exactly what they are expecting.

~ Rumi Antoinette

There’s someone here.”“I know.” She said, “Where’s Scott?” “I’m not sure,” He said, “I thought you were going to wait outside with Nichole and Matt.”“We decided to come in.”“You mean they’re in here too?”“Yes.”“Okay…” He said calmly, “You stay here.”She nodded as he turned to go.“Oh, and Carrie.”“Yes?”“Could you actually listen to me this time?” He asked with a faint smile on his face.

~ Julia Barkey

I might’ve found a way to cure them.” Crystal said in a jumble of words. “Cure them? Permanently?” “Yes sir.” He thought about this a moment before speaking, “You’ve got two weeks, can you do it by then?” “That’s plenty of time sir, thank you.

~ Julia Barkey