Suspense Quotes

Detective Inspector Carver took a picture from the breast pocket of his suit. He handed it to me. ‘This is what you did, Michael. Take a good look. See if it jogs your memory.’I gawped at the mutilated corpse of a naked young girl lying on a blood-soaked double bed. Her hands were bound to the brass headboard with duct tape. Blood covered her upper body, and her long blonde hair was streaked a murderous shade of red. One eye stared at the ceiling as if searching for salvation, the other, a bloody unrecognisable pulp, bore no relation to its sightless counterpart. ‘Carla Marie Coombs. Twenty-one years of age. Do you recognise her, Michael?

~ Mark Tilbury

God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes he uses anonymous people.

~ Khaled Talib

Angel you may have lucked out this time, but just remember I’m going to be on your ass until I get my revenge. I promise you this will not be the last time you will see me! You’re a dead man Medina, maybe not now but soon! - Orlando to Angel under the crumbling furnace in the hotel.

~ Angel Ramon Medina

Whoever said dogs can't speak was never interested in learning another language.

~ Mark Winik

Fill me in on the details of your life.”“I thought you didn’t give a shit.”“It’ll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.

~ Christina Dodd

By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones.

~ Christina Dodd

Oh, God. Not again.”Not again? “Do you make a habit of driving into people’s houses?

~ Christina Dodd

He didn’t want to do this…He had come here to hide.

~ Christina Dodd

I'm sorry about the screaming. I thought you were him.

~ Christina Dodd

I didn't burn down anyone’s house! I didn’t. I wouldn’t!”Maddie looked at Jacob.“You know I wouldn’t. I didn’t kill you when I had the chance!

~ Christina Dodd

That's the thing about digging holes,” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

~ Tami Hoag

The concrete floor beneath the airbed was hard and uncompromising, digging into her back and making it difficult to breathe. The stale air reeked of disinfectant and shit. And something else that she couldn't quite place. Death, perhaps?

~ Mark Tilbury

We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach.

~ D.j. Jouett

Some say the bible teaches that with our tongues we can speak, set things into motion both good and bad, life and death. What we bind and loose on earth will be bound and loosed in heaven.

~ William Elias

No matter what her father wanted, no way was Clara going to partner up with Light Walker. He'd suggested a tarantula for a snack, for heaven's sake. The were never, ever, ever going to work together.

~ Dana Marton

She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye.

~ Dana Marton

Confidence is highly erotic.

~ K.d. Harp

Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's.

~ K.d. Harp

He brushed his lips over hers, and this time his kiss was a bit more heated than the last. She clutched onto him, deepening it until he pulled back. He groaned, simmering heat in his gaze. Let's get you in the bath before I lose my head. Maybe after the bath you can lose it.

~ Katie Reus

Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.

~ Theodore Jerome Cohen

Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.

~ Allen Zadoff

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

~ Allen Zadoff

There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a commando team to take a dump.

~ Allen Zadoff

You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?

~ Wodke Hawkinson

For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.

~ Elizabeth Heiter

I keep people alive every day, and right now, the person I’m trying to keep alive is you. Will you let me?

~ Chrys Fey

These mega-churches are springing up all over the country—especially in the suburbs of large cities. And they all follow the same formula: A charismatic, self-anointed pastor starts a church by holding services in a home, then in a school. He targets the young professionals, who make good salaries—although the poorer folks are welcome too, as long as they’re willing to pay their fair share. When there are enough members, the pastor proposes buying land, then buildings, then more buildings, asking the people to give sacrificially to do God’s work.The pastor uses outrageous gimmicks in the worship services to create a massive word-of-mouth campaign for the church. Everybody’s excited about going to the big show on Sundays. For the children and youth, church is like going to a theme park. And what kid wouldn’t want to do that?A local TV ministry is added. Then it goes national. Then global. Services are streamed live to the internet. A satellite campus is opened, then another, and so on. Ministries are established in foreign countries.But whose church is it? The pastor’s. Whose ministry is it? The pastor’s. What is everything built on? The pastor. It is his church. His ministry. His empire.-- Hal, the mega-church blogger

~ Robert Burton Robinson

I still wanted to go home, but had to enter the tunnel and pray for the best. Every day, I discovered more disadvantages to being a strong woman, although the past week made me feel like Hercules in a burkha.-Grace Madison, PhD

~ N.l.b. Horton

There is good weird and good strange and bad weird and bad strange. Your Daddy is good weird and good strange.

~ Roger Hamlet

Eric waited all his life for love and, in meeting, Tina thought he had it. What he got wasn't quite what he'd dreamed about.

~ E.j. Caulder

What is my favorite part of book one? It would have to be the last chapter because that’s when the consequences catch up to Eric and it became clear that what he considered fun and games for nearly a year almost got Tina killed.

~ E.j. Caulder

What are we, Charlie's Angels?

~ Terri Blackstock

If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

~ Nicci French

It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening.

~ J.d. Masterson

He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.

~ Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize

~ Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.

~ Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.

~ Harlan Coben

A young man held a young woman in his arms, her head leaned to one side, her eyes empty and still. He was shadowed, but I saw that the figure was kissing the girl's neck. No that wasn't it. As I moved closer I saw what it was. She was unmoving, a statue, while he sucked on her bleeding neck. I was cold with fear, yet I moved closer ... mesmerised

~ Stella Coulson