Thriller Quotes

I win.

~ Abigail Haas

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.

~ J.p. Bloch

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

~ Jon Michaelsen

Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won’t get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin’ bag.

~ Jon Michaelsen

She was always demanding of herself, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe?

~ Night Film

I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This was different from the cockroach and the books and the Barbie. I’d been injured. Someone had tried to physically harm me.

~ Kate White

Well, be careful,” she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her. When she turned back around, her green eyes were hard and filled with hate. “Because wouldn’t it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself?

~ Kate White

She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.

~ Kate White

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

~ Kate White

Simon's brain tried to comprehend the situation. 'Was an international supermodel really holding Doc Gutson, leader of the infamous Bloodworth Gang, captive?

~ Clare Havens

Ah ha! the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

~ Clare Havens

The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical…

~ Amanda Dubin

Uncouth thoughts can come take possession of the sweetest mind. That happens to you, you got to keep yourself alone a long time to heal of it. Mostly so you don’t pass it on. Thoughts, you see, or things, or folks that touch, go right on rubbing on each other, long after the actual touching is done and gone. That’s the Law Of Contagion.”-- Banjo Bartell

~ Penelope Kahler Swan

At the witching hour, the city was totally silent. Only the wind of portent blew through the gathered council of whispering brick chimneys on the rooftops, delivering the hand that would write upon the wall.

~ Wyatt Michael

I am incognito, running away from scenes of the tested truths that I have so meticulously exacted before I am found guilty of the very things I have written.

~ Wyatt Michael

The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.

~ Wyatt Michael

Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into the darkness that claimed his soul.

~ Wyatt Michael

He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held the only evidence of his identity in his hand and in one motion of forfeit and justice he cast it into the fire.

~ Wyatt Michael

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

~ John Connolly

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.

~ Justin Sirois

Adventure is my middle name.

~ Scott Conrad

At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.

~ Gillian Flynn

If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.

~ Michael Ponsor

No matterwhat he did to make Claire’s life better or show her he’d changed, these memories would always linger in the recesses of his mind. For the rest of his life, he’d know what he’d done. Tony hated himself for all of it—hell, he always had the end justifies the means argument, but even he didn’t believe that anymore. Not now. Not now that he knew Claire and loved Claire.

~ Aleatha Romig

General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt's head of antiquities would return to Cairo, and St. Louis would enjoy her treasure. But treasures sometimes have a higher price than their acquisition cost.

~ Michele Bonnell

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

~ Carolyn Wheat

You don’t look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.” Treating Murder

~ Gabrielle Black

THERE WAS ALWAYS a boy in your life that common sense and the prayers of parents told you to stay away from: fast talker, fast car, and fast hands. He was the boy your father kept a loaded shotgun by the door for and met on the front porch if he ever thought about venturing onto his property…let alone the threshold. He was the tall, dark, mysteriously handsome, and uncharacter-istically quiet one that made you wonder what was going on in his head, and that little voice in your head said it wasn’t always so honorable. He was the boy you broke all of the rules over because bad-boys equaled excitement and the rebel in you liked the ride.

~ A.j. Lape

Annabelle, I'm going to kill you! I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped.It looked like someone had beaten me to it.

~ Cleo Coyle

Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?”“Horizontal, of course.”“Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck a chord though. So, I rummaged around in the old Rory memory bank, and Emily is what rings a bell. Didn’t we go to school with an Emily? Tenth or eleventh grade, if I recall it correctly.

~ Ed Lynskey

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

~ Suneeta Misra

Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning

~ Marvin Amazon

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.

~ Cassandra Clare

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

~ Stephen King

Anticipation tingled in my stomach: the kind of tingle that at first you don’t know if it’s a good tingle or a bad tingle – just a tingle.

~ Terry Weible Murphy

It’s still all “ifs” “buts” and “maybes”.’ ‘Maybe,’ I said. ‘But if what I’m saying is correct …

~ Terry Weible Murphy

Meaning, yes -- I don't really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think it's weird a fictional character's telling this story, you ain't seen what happened, yet.

~ Kyle Michel Sullivan

. ‘Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they’re cops all the time, never mind it’s a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.’He tsks at me. ‘Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?

~ Sarah Alderson

Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.”This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.

~ Gwenn Wright

Thirty-two steps until Haley Tremaine entered hell. Thirty-two steps until she walked into the smell of alcohol and burned microwaveable meals, into a place where fear overwhelmed.

~ Krystal Wade