Thriller Quotes

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

~ Steven Ramirez

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

~ Steven Ramirez

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.

~ Steven Ramirez

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

~ Steven Ramirez

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

~ Steven Ramirez

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

~ Steven Ramirez

It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.

~ Steven Ramirez

I’m not a bad person.

~ Steven Ramirez

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.

~ Steven Ramirez

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

~ Steven Ramirez

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

~ Steven Ramirez

Drive. He’s already dead.

~ Steven Ramirez

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

~ Steven Ramirez

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

~ Steven Ramirez

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

~ Steven Ramirez

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

~ Steven Ramirez

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

~ Steven Ramirez

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

~ Steven Ramirez

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

~ Steven Ramirez

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

~ Steven Ramirez

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

~ Steven Ramirez

Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.

~ Steven Ramirez

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

~ Steven Ramirez

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

~ Steven Ramirez

Terry loved candlelight dinners and red wine. It was a nice contrast from work.And killing people.

~ Jonas Eriksson

What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it.

~ John Vamvas Olga Montes

As a writer, I will go down any dark alley, inch my way through the tightest crawl space, and feed on your every fear. I will take your sense of calm and tear it to shreds. - Horror Author Barbara Watkins

~ Barbara Watkins

Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than all the devils and the demons, but it also, more accurately, made me better than all the angels and gods.

~ Alistair Cross

Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol

~ Matthew Leeth

One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead... Why is it that he cannot do what the living do? It is because the thing that gave power to these parts is no longer there. That is the duppy, and that is the most powerful part of any man. Everybody has evil in them, and when a man is alive... he will not abandon himself to many evil things. But when the duppy leaves the body, it no longer has anything to restrain it and it will do more terrible things than any man ever dreamed of.- From 'Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica', Zora Neale Hurston, 1938

~ Charles A. Cornell

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!

~ Theresa Hollis

I’ve been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn‘t that be so cool! - Carol

~ Matthew Leeth

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

~ Stephen B. Pearl

Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.

~ Blake Crouch

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

~ Alan Joshua

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

~ Blake Crouch

I’m sorry, Bill, I thought you said something about aliens? Did you give up the menthols for marijuana? Or maybe they now have flavored joints as well?

~ Daniel P. Douglas

The moon shines like a freshly unwrapped cheese ball at the holidays.”-William Harrison in Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project

~ Daniel P. Douglas

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

~ Daniel P. Douglas

I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though - a garrotte around a target's neck or a knife in their heart - it's not for me. Too much empathy, that's my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different . . .

~ Graeme Shimmin