Top 100 Quotes About Suspense
#1. In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
Sean Terrence Best
#3. With an embarrassingly little amount of effort on his part, he twisted the Glock out of her fingers and flung it across the drive...
"Going so soon?" he asked.
"The company isn't to my liking.
Avery Flynn
#4. That's the past. I have even less power to change it now than I did to stop it then.
Jessie G.
#5. There's one thing I want you to do for me."
"Anything." He pleaded.
"When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. Ask yourself. Was it worth it?" She closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.
Michelle Umland
#7. He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat.
Tara Janzen
#8. Whenever she was in his arms, she forgot she even had a name.
Julie Ann Walker
#9. I suspected you were tired of looking for things you should have found a long time ago. ~ Jared
Julie Leto
#10. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves
Mike Bartos
#11. Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next."
"Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.
Dana Marton
#12. I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
Val McDermid
#13. Just when he thinks he's adjusting to anxiety as a constant condition, Jake feels several internal organs shrinking.
Peter Blauner
#14. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.
Bridget Allison
#15. She could not leave him hanging like this. "If you were hurt, I need to know." It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.
Tara Janzen
#16. Brooke?" he finally found the sense to ask. "What are you doing here?"
"I need a gun."
This was not how his dream was supposed to go.
Shannon K. Butcher
#17. Whispers of death crawled through her brain like insects swarming a feast. Murmurs of pain and torture sent shivers of dread down her spine. Gathering her courage, Alaina turned to face him.
"It all started with the attic . . .
Gina Salamon
#18. Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
Ruth Rendell
#19. Maybe we can pray and God answers in ways we can't see and it doesn't all happen spontaneously. Maybe it's about the journey, too."
(Undercover Protector)
Elizabeth Goddard
#20. Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you'll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.
Nelson DeMille
#21. For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.
Elizabeth Heiter
#22. You can choose your transgressions but you can't choose your consequences.
Deborah Stempien
#23. Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
Rex Reed
#24. We have our own personal demons to deal with.
Daniel Lewis
#26. Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#27. Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
Hallie Ephron
#28. 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
#29. The one ring, to rule them all'? Sounds very far-fetched to me!
Graham Downs
#30. There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.
And then it was gone.
Raymond Rice
#31. Deep down Kelly, I think you want me here. I think you're too damn scared to admit you need me. And I think I'm the only one who will understand the truth.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#32. I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, Pourquoi?
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#33. 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
#34. I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.
James Patterson
#35. 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
#36. There's always enough retribution to be dealt.
Amber Silvia
#37. It seems like hours pass, both of us staring into each others eyes. I have no idea what she sees that holds her, but I can't look away either. She's giving me the look again, the one that makes me feel like a superhero.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#38. In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#39. She growled.
He gave her a considering look. "That's almost sexy.
Dana Marton
#40. Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even known they were there and they could have just gone back to normal life.
Normal Life. He didn't even know what that would be now.
Shelley K. Wall
#41. Hurrying back into the rouge lighting in sheer terror, Amelia ran without another word, escaping into the shadows of the dungeon, and she shrieked for salvation that never came.
Shelique Lize
#42. Levi watched her carefully again, his gaze roaming over her face, as if he was trying to see into her mind. "You're not lying. Why are you doing this?"
"Because if I try to shut you out you'll cause me more problems than I want to deal with. And I don't want to kill you.
Katie Reus
#43. 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
#45. Ice Man, his friends had called him. She'd give him a different nickname, like Sex on a Stick or Horny Toad.
Vonnie Davis
#46. It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening.
J.D. Masterson
#47. Hopefully you're on the edge of your seat when reading WUWPOO. That's my favorite reading position.
S.N. Deinscheiss
#49. This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever.
Douglas Adams
#50. Let me give you a little piece of advice. Most men like to do the chasing."
Well, most men would have caught me by now.
B. J. Daniels
#52. 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
#53. He walked to the bathroom and looked into the mirror, trying to see himself through her eyes. It was time to change his style, throw off the shroud of timidity and start living his life.
Rubianne Wood
#54. You will find out that I'm not like them. I won't punish your for having an accident, and I won't punish you when you do something wrong, or something I don't like. I don't hit, darlin'.
Karen-Anne Stewart
#55. You're so beautiful," he told her.
Her laughter tickled his ears. "You realize you're looking at my back, right?"
"Mmm-hmmm. And it's a very beautiful back.
Elle Kennedy
#56. My gut is telling me you're innocent." His gaze went to the gun and then back to her face. "Relatively innocent.
Elizabeth Heiter
#57. Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
Jeffery Deaver
#58. You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.
Dee Henderson
#59. You can't possibly be afraid of trees.
Tara Janzen
#60. If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?
Jill Shalvis
#61. Fall in love with you? How could I fall in love with you when I loved you with every breath, every heartbeat, every lash of the fucking whip? When you invaded my dreams, my hallucinations. I can't stop loving you, bella. I've tried. God help me, I've tried.
Skye Warren
#62. Everything changes, and there's no denying that. But change isn't always bad, as long as you hold onto who you truly are, and hold onto each other.
Alex E. Carey
#63. Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't gladly take what you are so willing to offer."
"Any but you, apparently."
-Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence
Chameleon
#64. This thing I feel for you... I've never felt like this about anyone, Tegan.
Katie Reus
#65. This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.
Roger Ebert
#66. He's a gazillionaire. I barely make expenses every month. He owns mansions all over the world; I co-rent a townhouse in Alexandria with my best friend. Women fall all over themselves to go out with him. I haven't had a date since forever.
Magda Alexander
#67. He smiled at me shyly and took a step closer. I froze, heart pounding, as he put one hand on my cheek and leaned toward me. I swallowed, gazing up at him with what I hoped was an expectant (and not alarmed) expression. He bent his head toward mine and ...
J.M. Richards
#68. when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#69. He covered her hands with his. "Why the hurry?"
"Seriously?" She stared at him, her jaw dropping. "I'm on fire! If we wait one more minute, I'm certain the sheets will spontaneously combust. I won't be held responsible if your house burns down because you wanted to waste time on foreplay.
Elle James
#70. Laramie had smiled at Dana. "You just can't stand one of your cousins making a clean getaway.
B. J. Daniels
#71. Never in her wildest dreams would she have pegged this man as a dirty talker. Just went to show that you should never underestimate the quiet ones - and never let your guard down around them either.
Elle Kennedy
#73. She really needed to stop reading romantic suspense because now horror stories from authors like Shiloh Walker were on her mind and a little too vivid for what she needed at the moment.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#74. Everything is an echo of something I once read.
Dream, hope, and celebrate life!
Love always comes back in a song.
One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.
Memories never die, and dreams never end!
What is time?
John Siwicki
#75. There was a moment's suspense while Conscience and Sheer Wickedness fought the matter out inside him, and then Conscience, which had started on the encounter without enthusiasm, being obviously flabby and out of condition, threw up the sponge.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. I don't mind my friends calling me "Thornes," but the fact of people calling me "Prickly Thornes" draws the line.
Simi Sunny
#77. He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return. - SHEA
Michelle Warren
#78. She was murdered fifty years ago, right here in Savannah. They found her body floating in the river.
Lindsay Marie Miller
#79. You have the most incredible eyes. I feel as if I can look into your soul."
Sid shivered. "Don't look too closely.
B. J. Daniels
#80. She wouldn't have died if I hadn't taught her how to fall.
Jane Casey
#81. If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.
Mike Nichols
#82. Oh God," Jenna said, "will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind?
Richard Finney
#83. Fill me in on the details of your life."
"I thought you didn't give a shit."
"It'll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.
Christina Dodd
#84. He pulls me into the steel of his chest. In between kissing me, he whispers, "You don't have to be jealous of them, you know. None of them hold a candle to you.
Magda Alexander
#85. I will be hating you a teensy bit the next time I see you and you've got that I-had-sex-with-a-god-glow.
Katie Reus
#87. It is only a true mystery that can never be solved.
Paul Norris
#88. I think I've proved that I'm not to be trusted," he said.
"Then why do I feel safer now that I have in my entire life?"
"Because you're just as screwed up as me.
Brynn Kelly
#89. I'll shower, then we can go. I smell like a zombie."
Hell, if the undead looked like that, bring on the zombie apocalypse.
Brynn Kelly
#90. Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires ... never make her hold back. - Felicity (The Pleasure Room)
D.N. Simmons
#91. My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.
Bruno Dumont
#92. Sometimes in the winter, when the fog rolled in and silenced the waves, it felt as if death had its fingers around my neck. Fingers like frostbitten twigs that made me ache inside.
Tara Kelly
#93. Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.
V. Alexander
#94. Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.
Yawatta Hosby
#95. Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
Philip Pullman
#96. This woman would be the death of him.... He told himself he wouldn't be stupid enough to let her steal his heart.
B. J. Daniels
#97. He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.
Dana Marton
#98. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.
John Irving
#99. Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is ... In knowledge there is power.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#100. I apologize for my body's reaction," he managed between deep breaths. "That's not how I usually tell a woman I find her attractive." Jake Dalton, Prisoner of Love
Cathy Skendrovich
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