Top 100 Mystery Suspense Quotes
#1. 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
#3. Call me crotchety, but I didn't like being bossed around, especially before I'd injected caffeine into my system. Violet Parker
Ann Charles
#4. I used to feel sorry for myself, then I discovered cocktails. If life has taught me anything, it's that there's nothing a stiff drink can't fix.
K.M. Morgan
#5. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.
Noorilhuda
#6. You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot." ~Maggie Mae Castro to FBI Special Agent Clive Poole
Beth Yarnall
#7. February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.
Judy Nedry
#8. The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them they're not seeing what they think they're seeing.
Wodke Hawkinson
#9. Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory
David Baldacci
#10. Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you've met them before?
JoAnne Kenrick
#11. So much for the bimbo alert; if she read books like that, then there was a light on upstairs, above the splendid front porch.
C.I. Dennis
#12. The right things often happen for the wrong reason.
Alex Adam
#13. The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters
R.J. Peters
#14. give a smile, get a smile, keep a smile
V.L.Z.
#15. What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?" ~Maggie Mae Castro
Beth Yarnall
#16. The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.
Ruth Ford Elward
#17. 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
#18. Black rose, black rose
Who's gonna be your only one?
Who's gonna keep you safe and warm?
Run, run my baby black rose
I'm gonna find you home.
P.M. Highlanders
#19. For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.
Nancy B. Brewer
#20. His eyes were twin flakes of ember floating into the night from a roaring inferno. I won't let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe.
Airicka Phoenix
#21. 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
#22. For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. It's so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception
Michael Allan Scott
#26. Ms. Taylor's writing style is clear, without frills, and so streamlined that her story flows and flows and flows, without taking a break, to its satisfying conclusion.
Maeve of Tara
Vicki M. Taylor
#27. The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.
Nancy B. Brewer
#28. Abigail ... His heart ached for his little girl, and the loss of his family drove like a blade through his heart. His head jerked up as the creak of a timber echoed overhead. If only they hadn't come to this god-forsaken place.
Caroline Mitchell
#29. I help others because I can, not because I expect something in return.
Amy Manemann
#30. I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.
Iris Johansen
#31. 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
#32. The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
V. Alexander
#33. He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.
B. J. Daniels
#34. We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.
Gwenn Wright
#35. I'd spent my whole career dealing with badasses taking care of my nine-month-old boy should be a lark.
C.I. Dennis
#36. 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
#37. Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly.
Julie McElwain
#38. The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb
Nancy B. Brewer
#39. Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.
Raymond Chandler
#40. On the way back to Berea College, Deborah and William caught up on events, most of the time both talking at once. Mr. Caldwell listened and smiled, perhaps remembering his youth.
William Roy Pipes
#41. Whenever there is love beyond boundaries ...
Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans ...
Nevertheless, a Trial is born ...
You pass that trial, sacred you shall be ... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!
M.W.Latif
#42. What do you think books will look like 50 years from now.
M. Scott
#43. 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
#44. Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.
Julie Garwood
#45. 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
#47. The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. "How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?"
Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. "Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.
Airicka Phoenix
#49. Why did you shoot him?"
"You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.
John Connolly
#50. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#51. Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.
Bonnie Somerville
#52. If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?
Jill Shalvis
#53. 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
#54. There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins.
Belinda G. Buchanan
#55. Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you.
Michael Houbrick
#56. They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#57. He held up his hand, and in it was ...
Oh, God.
The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell.
Jill Shalvis
#59. She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
J.D. Robb
#60. Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.
V. Alexander
#61. It is only a true mystery that can never be solved.
Paul Norris
#62. She wouldn't have died if I hadn't taught her how to fall.
Jane Casey
#63. She was murdered fifty years ago, right here in Savannah. They found her body floating in the river.
Lindsay Marie Miller
#64. I don't mind my friends calling me "Thornes," but the fact of people calling me "Prickly Thornes" draws the line.
Simi Sunny
#65. Chloe leans back in the leather recliner trying to recall the name of the person she murdered.
Sandy Ward Bell
#66. Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.
Meryl Sawyer
#68. Hopefully you're on the edge of your seat when reading WUWPOO. That's my favorite reading position.
S.N. Deinscheiss
#69. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?
Susannah Sandlin
#70. My blood ran cold. Twenty yards away a hooded figure was crouching behind the oak tree, flashing a pinpoint light into the office where Walter and Lola did business.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#71. 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
#72. I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler's voice from behind me. 'It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.
Micheal Rivers
#73. You can choose your transgressions but you can't choose your consequences.
Deborah Stempien
#74. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.
Bridget Allison
#76. In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
Sean Terrence Best
#77. You're a real cowboy."
He laughed. "You're just now realizing that?
B. J. Daniels
#79. DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. "I believe you owe me a kiss.
B. J. Daniels
#80. Its aura distorts hard edges. Shimmering vortices of discoloration boil off, swirling, licking the
cold night air with bright spectral fire. Violence and death, this one's still hot.
Michael Allan Scott
#81. She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived.
No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#82. 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
#83. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill
H.A. Corby
#84. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.
Linda Castillo
#85. Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
Anthony Liccione
#86. Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible!
Garry E. Lewis
#87. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.
T.L. Parker
#88. The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
Jesse Kellerman
#89. Focus. She's Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane's butt like that? ~ Zach
Monique DeVere
#90. About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.
Jack Getze
#91. I've never been a morning person, and if it's one thing I don't need before my first cup of coffee, it's a visit from the cops. But at eight forty-five on a Friday morning, two of them waited for me at my law office.
Debbi Mack
#92. 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
#93. Instinctively, I shoved my arm into the void in front of my face and backed up. I heard heavy breathing, a soft grunt, and then I was roughly thrown aside. As the footsteps retreated, I tried to see who it was, but it was too dark.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#94. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.
Simona Panova
#95. We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.
Dan Poblocki
#96. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.
Paula Hawkins
#97. If I'm going down, I'm going down with lipstick on.
Beth Yarnall
#98. It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.
Caroline Cairn
#99. How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#100. She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.
Lida Sideris
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