Thriller Quotes

Whatever you’re not telling me, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.

~ Ken Cruickshank

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

Live for God. Live for your mother. Die for your gang. In that order.

~ Coral Russell

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

If he does it with you, he'll do it to you.

~ Paula Hawkins

Jace watched as the moon rose over the pines and scattered the mountainside with fool's gold. He rested against a large tree trunk as he leaned back into the dark shadow of the boughs and kicked himself mentally for thinking this was going to be easy. He should have known finding someone as complicated as Bo Hamilton wouldn't be easy.

~ B.j. Daniels

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

~ Philip Kerr

Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.

~ Caroline Mitchell

The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own.

~ Caroline Mitchell

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

~ Caroline Mitchell

Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.

~ Hunter Shea

She cursed under her breath. Eddie watched the EBs react, the younger ones recoiling with silent gasps. Better watch your language. There are children present. I think you're freaking them out. Sure, I'm the one freaking them out.

~ Hunter Shea

Live for God. Live for your mother. Die for you gang.

~ Coral Russell

We see even the flames.

~ P.m. Highlanders

The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren't the kind that Anna wanted to admire too closely.

~ A. Ashley Straker

Don't waste your breath/trying to escape/if a pure love you don't have/no one will be saved.

~ P.m. Highlanders

To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!

~ Lorine S. Thomas

This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.

~ Zoran Drvenkar

Black rose, black roseWho’s gonna be your only one?Who’s gonna keep you safe and warm?Run, run my baby black roseI’m gonna find you home.

~ P.m. Highlanders

There is nothing to fear but to fear the fear itself

~ Saikat Dey

The air in the room was so cold, the exposed flesh of his face felt like ice. I'll be the first person to get frostbite in a house sleeping several feet from a roaring fire.

~ Hunter Shea

Oh, man, she's gonna love you,' Max said. 'Physically. A lot.

~ A. Ashley Straker

I told you stupid sons of bitches that this was going to happen!

~ John A. Autero

I’ve sometimes regretted the women I’ve been.There have been so many: daughter, sister, cop, tough broad, several kinds of whore, jilted lover, ideal wife, heroine, killer.I’ll provide the truth of them all, inasmuch as I’m capable of telling the truth.Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that’s hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business.They say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can’t keep that secret, she can’t keep yours.I’m fifty-nine.

~ Becky Masterman

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.Romans 12:19King James Version What most people don’t seem to understand is that sometimes, He subcontracts the work!Detective-Investigator Louis Martelli,NYPD

~ Theodore Jerome Cohen

The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.

~ Carol Kepnes

The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards. Hellbound

~ David Mccaffrey

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

~ Theodore Jerome Cohen

Actions have consequences. Kids today don’t think about that. It’s like, ‘Hey, wouldn’t this be awesome?!’ Consequences? What are those?

~ 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

Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.

~ Cy Wyss

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

If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?

~ P.c. Chinick

Everything is red, freakin pink, and all heartsy. Everywhere! It’s driving me insane!

~ A.r. Von

Kill Piracy; Save Creativity!

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction

~ Glenn Cooper