Top 100 Mystery Romance Quotes
#1. A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#2. I'm a big animal. Fine motor skills are not me forte.
Mike Mehalek
#3. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#4. I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.
Chuck Palahniuk
#5. You did say something I found offensive yesterday.
What was that?
I believe the word you used was friends.
J.R. Richardson
#6. One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.
Lauren Willig
#7. Call me crotchety, but I didn't like being bossed around, especially before I'd injected caffeine into my system. Violet Parker
Ann Charles
#8. Lord help her, but she was instantly drawn to his scent - a mixture of smoke and salt and mystery - as well as his strength. The pulse of his heart, the hum of blood through his veins, the aura of power and danger surrounding him.
Jo Grafford
#9. I may like to be on my own, but I like being alive.
Donna Grant
#10. There, amongst the angry water was the glow of green eyes, hundreds of them encompassed the entire area ... We were completely and totally surrounded. They all hung just below the water waiting for a sign to attack. There was no hope. We would all perish ...
Meredith T. Taylor
#11. Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.
Sandra Byrd
#12. America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.
Francis Parkman
#13. My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark. - Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie
#14. That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
John Fowles
#16. Her fingers clutched him now, and her body writhed with a frustration he knew all too well.
He wanted her.
Now.
Here.
Madeline Martin
#17. Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.
StorySmitten
#18. Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you've met them before?
JoAnne Kenrick
#19. The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters
R.J. Peters
#20. You killed me." My voice was unsteady.
He held me close again. "I brought you back."
"Please tell me we only have to do that once."
He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke
Catrina Burgess
#21. What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro
Beth Yarnall
#22. I would never give up on the girl I love, even if it took umpteen years.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#23. 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
#24. I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
Lauren Willig
#25. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
I know what." Isabel reached under the end table, took out the game board, and rattled the Band-Aid box containing the letter tiles. "It's been a week-and-a-half since our last Scrabble game.
Ed Lynskey
#26. For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.
Nancy B. Brewer
#27. I promise it'll only hurt half as much as I wish it would." The words came out as smooth and sweet as if she'd just told him that mint chocolate chip was the best flavor ice cream ever.
Avery Flynn
#28. The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.
Genie Frisbee
#29. He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#30. What did he say? He is in love? My brain stops, my heart stops, my blood ceases to flow. My appendages go weak and cold, and there is a suspension of all space and time as the universe comes into perfect alignment.
Julie Sarff
#31. Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.
H.C. Deboard
#32. What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?
Jennifer Walkup
#33. The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream." --Julia Gast in Red Fox Woman
Judy Ann Davis
#34. Yeah well, I didn't agree to Cassidy dying." -Ethan Keys
Bethany Neal
#35. Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are
Catrina Burgess
#36. Anything could happen here and who would know? It was a new place to me, but timeless in its own right. Regn had never stood here. All these years since and we'd been so close to 'this' obscurity. Its hidden proximity is what disquieted.
Wheston Chancellor Grove
#37. I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.
Jennifer Walkup
#38. Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.
Lawren Leo
#39. Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone here, I am not willing to poison them all. At least not yet.
Robin LaFevers
#40. Colorful characters are the odd shaped pieces that fill the holes in life's puzzle.
Richard Stephens
#41. Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts and argyle socks.
Genie Frisbee
#42. I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.
Esha Gupta
#43. The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb
Nancy B. Brewer
#44. The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.
Nancy B. Brewer
#45. Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.
Chauncey Depew
#46. He tugged my zipper down like he was unveiling a gift, spreading my pants open. "Yeah. There it is. You have a nice fat dick. I would have never guessed it."
"I'm Italian," I said inanely.
L.B. Gregg
#47. A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness
#48. He locked gazes with her. "I have to wonder why you aren't being straight with me. I hate getting myself killed without knowing why.
B. J. Daniels
#49. So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman
Charlaine Harris
#50. If he didn't call you by name, then you've got nothing to worry about. Maybe he has a glass eye and couldn't look at anyone but you."
"You could be right. But I've always thought glass eyes were kind of expressionless, not hate-filled and menacing.
Liliana Hart
#51. The romance, mystery, intrigue, love, betrayal, and majesty of the greatest epic. As you read, I believe your spirit will soar and your
Beth Moore
#52. She wouldn't have died if I hadn't taught her how to fall.
Jane Casey
#53. Please accept my apologies, lass. I should nae have been so forward, but I've been wanting to kiss ye.
Victoria Roberts
#54. If I'm going down, I'm going down with lipstick on.
Beth Yarnall
#55. Ms. Moore, I want you to find my grandparents. This is important to me. I want to meet them and learn more about my heritage. I would like to know what my parents were like.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#56. It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.
Caroline Cairn
#57. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Isabel Allende
#58. Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
J.D. Robb
#59. 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
#60. I think that's why I love to read. I'll read almost anything - mystery, suspense, slice of life - but what I really love is romance. Contemporary is good, Historical is better, Paranormal is the best.
S.T. Prussing
#61. Violet Lynn Parker, you'd better spill or I'll start bellowing 'Happy Birthday' to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.
Ann Charles
#62. No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.
Jane Austen
#63. She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
J.D. Robb
#64. How this woman had managed to get under his skin and claw her way inside was a mystery.
He couldn't leave her there though. His entire being was screaming at him to get her out.
Caroline Cairn
#65. I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy.
Maria Grazia Swan
#66. My parents think the longer the name, the more powerful the sorcerer, so they named me Cassandra Morgan Ursula Margaret Scot. You can call me Cassie.
Christine Amsden
#67. Jensen looked concerned.
"I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?"
He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch.
Katherine Bayless
#68. Her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn't think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage treatment facility, much less an airport where everyone had to look at it all the time.
D.B. Reynolds
#69. You don't smile enough, Coop.
I smile, I tell her defensively. She puts a hand on my shoulder and squares off with me.
But not like you mean it.
J.R. Richardson
#71. In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#72. 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
#74. She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray
Shelley Gray
#75. She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.
Christy A. Campbell
#76. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#77. They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.
Cassandra Giovanni
#79. This bridge is where I had my first kiss and... I'm pretty sure it's where I had my last."-Cassidy Haines
Bethany Neal
#80. So it's fate then?" I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, "Us being together?"
"Absolutely," Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.
Who was I to argue with Fate?
E.J. Stevens
#81. Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.
J.D. Robb
#82. She had to laugh. "You're making me hungry."
"Me, too." His gaze locked with hers, making it clear it wasn't just barbecue he was hungry for.
B. J. Daniels
#83. Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.
Mark Batterson
#84. To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.
James Parton
#86. Focus. She's Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane's butt like that? ~ Zach
Monique DeVere
#87. 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
#89. In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn't all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#90. The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.
Kathi Daley
#91. Something not from earth," Jean Luc said. The setup was too perfect. Misha looked at me, and I sighed, dreading what he would be unable to stop himself from saying next. "Live long and prosper.
A.E. Jones
#92. Hope turned sly. "What if the slice of apple pie is served a la mode?"
Smiling, Peggy Sue regarded her tall, brunette, and blue-eyed friend. "Is the slice of apple pie served a la mode with three scoops of homemade vanilla ice cream piled on top of it?
Lyn Key
#94. Good morning, Amelia" greeted Rick as he walked into the room the next morning. "I'm starved. For some reason, I woke up craving strawberries.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#95. Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
E.J. Stevens
#96. You're a real cowboy."
He laughed. "You're just now realizing that?
B. J. Daniels
#97. And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I'll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.
Jennifer Walkup
#98. That's the last time I put you in charge of the tequila when we're making margaritas
JoAnne Kenrick
#99. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.
Simona Panova
#100. My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice
Catrina Burgess
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