Top 65 Adventure Thriller Quotes
#1. Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb.
L.A. Larkin
#2. This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#4. Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.
T.L. Parker
#5. My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Almney King
#7. There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.
S.C. Barrus
#8. Ark Storm - what if you could control the weather?
Linda Davies
#9. Anyone who thinks life is boring hasn't lived
Fred Cooper
#10. If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
Nancy Kress
#11. You and I. We're going back. People are dying because of this beast. It must be stopped. And we will take the dragon this time, and water the ground with its blood.
Ruth Ford Elward
#12. Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky and disappeared into the void.
-Narrator, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project
Daniel P. Douglas
#13. You're more afraid to live than you are of death.
F.J. Gale
#14. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.
Michael Dirda
#16. She had to get used to her new name, The Drummer. Twelfth, and last in line, but on a good note, she had the most money, and more importantly, she was alive.
Dayna S. Rubin
#17. Not another word, not another thought, not another sniffle. If you need to pass gas, I pray you'll clench your backside and keep walking until we are certainly alone.
S.C. Barrus
#18. I've never been on a bike," I say. "I mean, I've been on a bike but not a motorcycle."
"And why is that?" he asks.
"Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That's just gross."
Chris makes a face.
"If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.
Summer Lane
#19. Don't waste a minute fretting over the infinite destructive possibilities of The Singularity. Think of all the fun we're going to have along the way! It will all be one glorious adventure, start to finish!
Richard Long
#21. Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham. So I offer you a fair middle ground: relocate to northern Virginia. She transfers to the state morgue on Braddock Road, and you get to stay near your old beat.
Ed Lynskey
#23. The tools of their trade were simple, effective things: iron knuckles, saps and the like. But the iconic tool of the scuttler arsenal was a woven leather belt with a heavy iron or brass buckle used to decrease intelligence one wallop at a time.
S.C. Barrus
#24. He'd been kidnapped, betrayed, almost fed to a Diamondscale - yes, a Diamondscale - and now, just to top things off, he was on the run with the man who was responsible for the whole mess.
Ruth Ford Elward
#25. She always had her eyes set on the light. But Sade couldn't take his off of the darkness, because the second he did, it would devour him, and then her.
Lucian Bane
#27. Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regardless he did not require it for long.
Stacy Buck
#28. That's not what scares you. It's because you know I can take it where you're afraid to take it. You're afraid of the dark.
F.J. Gale
#29. Adventure novels tend to be larger than life. They involve lots of wham-bam and don't usually require a lot of extra thinking on the reader's part the way a mystery or thriller might.
Emlyn Chand
#30. That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.
S.C. Barrus
#31. You don't know what I'm prepared to do.
F.J. Gale
#32. Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.
David Lucero
#33. What do you mean, my life is at risk?" I questioned. "From one of the other professors?"
"Oh, it goes much deeper than that, Freddy," he said with a half crazed, wide eyed smile. Leaning in, he whispered, "I stole something.
S.C. Barrus
#34. Your best kicks ass and takes names," Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.
Allen Zadoff
#35. Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
Rick DeStefanis
#37. I'm always homesick for the journey," I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, " ... no matter what it may hold.
S.C. Barrus
#38. The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.
If only humans understood ...
Most ignore it.
Amanda Dubin
#39. You want to come back to the bank vault?" Jack says.
The bank vault. That's what Jack calls his house.
Allen Zadoff
#40. I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.
Stacy Buck
#41. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.
T.L. Parker
#42. For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.
James Patrick Kelly
#43. 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
#44. The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.
Ruth Ford Elward
#45. 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
#46. Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...
Peter J. Tanous
#47. For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.
Y.S. Lee
#48. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#49. If I don't pull the trigger, how can I ever be sure you won't come after my people again? How can I know that?
F.J. Gale
#50. Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.
Kaylin McFarren
#51. A killer on the payroll isn't good for business
L.A. Larkin
#52. I am so tired of begging your sorry ass, chasing your sorry ass down, tying your sorry ass up. ~ Mercy
Lucian Bane
#53. 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
#54. If the price I have to pay to see Jewish children playing without an armed escort are freeways across the desert and a take-a-way on every street corner throughout the Middle East, then I'm all for it.
Ray Stone
#55. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.
Vivek Pereira
#56. The rig began shaking like caffeine withdrawal." --Opening sentence of THE FURY.
"The duct-taped Buick swam north on Rush Street, hunting whores like a lesser white shark." --First sentence of Chapter One, THE FURY
Shane Gericke
#57. Two days of wedded bliss and dead dragons. Any regrets yet?"
"Not a one.
Ruth Ford Elward
#58. He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon's face that chased him across the sea.
Brooke Burgess
#60. A lot has changed, and now we're going off to fight a war neither of us wanted. So I'm asking you now, again, if you will bind yourself to me as my wife, now and forever.
Carison to Raven
Ruth Ford Elward
#61. If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar)
Kathi Humphries
#62. 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
#63. If you'd died on me, I would've taken it out on your corpse."
Raven Heartstone Celenti to Paladin Carison Destine
Ruth Ford Elward
#64. Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#65. You don't belong in this world, Abbey. You are not made for the dark.
F.J. Gale
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