Suspense Quotes

I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to light our spliffs. My fingertips tapped the stem to the gizmo that dinged a bell. Nobody came out. Wrong signal, so I did two bell rings. No response prompted me to tap out a series of bell rings.

~ Ed Lynskey

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.Winston Churchill

~ H.a. Corby

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

~ Dennis Ruane

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

~ Steve Hamilton

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

~ Todd Strasser

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

~ V. Alexander

Tonight I’ve been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I’ve graduated to talking to a mayor. Who’s next? The President of the National Association of Rodents?

~ V. Alexander

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

~ Gwenn Wright

The mosquitos are so big they eat you alive wear your shoes.

~ Joe R. Landon

The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasn’t, as the leaves whipped and the lightning fell away in a slow strobe effect across the expanse of sky. How he had gotten up there, I had no idea, but he had been there. Crouched in the tree in the middle of the courtyard, he watched me intently through the open window.

~ Gwenn Wright

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

~ Brian Bianco

She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pockets…where she felt the cold steel of a revolver.

~ Sherry Morris

Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!

~ Cheyenne Mitchell

You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would love to be able to tell you this is so. But no, like their granddaddy, the Wallace men were thievin’ crooks, always with a scheme ready to separate the weak from their hard-earned money.

~ Gwenn Wright

From Chapter 1:The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. Instead, I returned home when I should've learned better.

~ Ed Lynskey

He walked away. It was a shame really, but what could I do? He was the law; I broke the law, two things one should never combine.From WIP The Trinity Saints

~ Leslie Dawn Nash

The Writers curseWe have to writeWe have no choiceWe have stories to TELL

~ Paul Barrell

I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes,” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.

~ Simi Sunny

Chloe leans back in the leather recliner trying to recall the name of the person she murdered.

~ Sandy Ward Bell

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

~ P. Walter Gagnon

I've never been a morning person, and if it's one thing I don't need before my first cup of coffee, it's a visit from the cops. But at eight forty-five on a Friday morning, two of them waited for me at my law office.

~ Debbi Mack

In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.

~ Sean Terrence Best

The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.

~ Natalie Babbitt

A tree.” She spotted one. It was hidden behind a much larger tree, its limbs misshapen in its attempt to fight for even a little sunlight in the shadow. “Dana has this tradition of giving a sad-looking tree the honor of being a Christmas tree.” She walked over to the small, nearly hidden tree. “I like this one. “It’s…” He laughed. “Ugly?” “No, it’s beautiful because it’s had a hard life. It’s struggled to survive against all odds and would keep doing that without much hope. But it has a chance to be something special.

~ B.j. Daniels

Strange sounds, voices - A child's laughter heard through their mother's bedroom door. - The stories told at family gatherings. -Their mother's sometimes odd behaviour. - Twins Jahlil and Jahmeer, with the help of their uncle, a Philadelphia Detective, and a few friends, decide to find out what went on in the upstairs apartment where their mother lived as a young child. They are determined to discover the mystery behind The House On Galloway Rd that has continually traumatized their mother.

~ Adele Frances

He locked gazes with her. “I have to wonder why you aren’t being straight with me. I hate getting myself killed without knowing why.

~ B.j. Daniels

I want to die.” May shook her head. “Let me get a knife.” “I’ve made a horrible mess of things.” “Haven’t we all? If you don’t want your supper burned, die quietly while I get back to the kitchen.

~ B.j. Daniels

You’re a real cowboy.”,He laughed. “You’re just now realizing that?

~ B.j. Daniels

DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. “I believe you owe me a kiss.

~ B.j. Daniels

There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... If you're reading this, I'm already dead.

~ Elizabeth Heiter

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.

~ Gillan Flynn

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

~ Peter J. Tanous

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

~ Dick Francis

It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.

~ Caroline Cairn

It's a strange feeling, owning a secret. It's like a stone in my stomach, crushing my insides and making me feel sick every time I think of it.

~ Fiona Barton

Then, if you want, we can bring her back to New York and keep her safe. If she means that much to you, she means that much to me.” My head continued to move from side to side. “Who the fuck are you?” Nox leaned close, his cologne clouding my thoughts. “I’m Batman, princess. Next time you want to fly across the country, tell me. I won’t delay two hundred people’s plans, and we can just fly in the bat plane.

~ Aleatha Romig

In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin’s roofline a bursting fireball.

~ Ed Lynskey

Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.

~ Ed Lynskey

The water. The lake. It flows through our veins, and there's nothing we can do about it… It's like venom.

~ Karen Katchur

She felt a strong pull toward the water and it was more than curiosity…

~ Karen Katchur