Top 82 Suspense Action Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Hopefully you're on the edge of your seat when reading WUWPOO. That's my favorite reading position.
S.N. Deinscheiss
#3. 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
#4. Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
Martin Hopkins
#5. Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.
Woody Allen
#6. Like two lost souls, we fall asleep in each other's arms, hoping to find ourselves once again.
Jalpa Williby
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.
T.L. Parker
#10. There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
Terry Brooks
#11. She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.
Elle Kennedy
#12. I'm now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I've had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word 'lizard.'"
-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.
Richard Finney
#13. For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#14. The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.'
There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra?
D.J. Stutley
#15. Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
Barry Eisler
#17. What do you think books will look like 50 years from now.
M. Scott
#18. At a hundred and twenty five miles per hour, with the wind rushing in his face, darkness around him, he is alone in the universe, but then, Zeb has been alone all his life.
Ty Patterson
#19. Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she'd find when she unwrapped him.
Cindy Skaggs
#20. Like two lost souls, we fall in each other's arms, hoping to find ourselves again.
Jalpa Williby
#21. Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora. He kept his custom eye wear on and made himself comfortable, looking more like a Wall Street accountant than the cold killer he'd become ...
Peprah Boasiako
#22. If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?
Virginia McKevitt
#24. As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done ...
Peprah Boasiako
#25. This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.
Dayna S. Rubin
#26. If Josh could see me having to empty out his piss, and nurse him this way, he'd beg me to let him go.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#27. One honorable young man can make all the difference ...
Robert L. Beck
#28. It's not how many friends you have but how important you are to them.
Ty Patterson
#29. I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.
F. Paul Wilson
#30. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.
Noorilhuda
#32. Kelly, let me do what I can to make this easy for you."
"What the hell are you doing, hmm? Your good guy bad guy act, doesn't wash with me.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#33. I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It's not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.
- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#34. All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#35. You had decided to take the action, whatever it was." "Yes." "Yes. It involved perhaps a period of inaction." "Of comparative inaction - yes." "Of suspense, shall we say?" "Yes - of suspense, certainly." "Possibly
Dorothy L. Sayers
#39. Perfection is found in the doing, not in the results.
Clay Mitchell
#41. Mick was always the right kind of dirty. Windblown, fresh off his bike, wrapped in tattoo and leather. Muscles all the hell over the place. The man was a serious piece of eye candy. Thinking about him losing the leather warmed the chill that had gripped her since the attack.
Cindy Skaggs
#42. It suddenly occurred to him that for the first time in years, they were about to be alone together for more than five minutes.
Just the two of them. On a small jet. Tens of thousands of feet in the air.
Christ.
Maybe he should've packed a parachute, just in case.
Elle Kennedy
#43. 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
#44. Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper ...
John J. Ainsworth
#45. When you said we were clandestine I didn't realize you meant literally underground, you could have warned me.
Mark A. McCormick
#46. You're such a bastard," she sighed.
He chuckled. "Are you really insulting the man who just gave you an orgasm?
Elle Kennedy
#47. 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
#48. We're going balls to the walls, guys. Our sneak and peak just turned inti a hostage rescue.
Melissa Cutler
#49. My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.
Shelique Lize
#50. 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
#52. I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes
Lauren Bradshaw
#53. It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.
Samantha Jacobey
#54. The man breathed deeply with his eyes shut and his speech trailed off. Nick approached the patient with the syringe in hand, nodding. He turned the machine up now, almost all the way, and then proceeded with the injection.
I think you're about ready.
Jackie Sonnenberg
#55. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#58. Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
Lee Child
#59. The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.
Martin Hopkins
#60. We are going to hell together. But we're coming back alive. Don't forget that.
Atsuko Asano
#61. Don't worry it might never happen.
By: Edward J Petraitis Sr.
T.M. Foster
#62. She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.
Leslie McNeill
Richard Finney
#63. Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.
T.L. Parker
#65. 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
#66. She has seen a part of me I needed to keep personal, yet her eyes have calmed me. She has drawn out my humanity. I'm fighting for revenge, and she is fighting for survival. It's a toxic mix.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#67. I play to win and if it looks like I've lost, its only because its not over yet.
Kiera Dellacroix
#68. You're not safe with me."
He cut me off, seeming to growl. "I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone.
S.G. Holster
#69. I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.
Jalpa Williby
#70. Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy - anything that has a good story.
Scott Eastwood
#71. I hate phones," he grumbled into her neck. "Seriously, I wanna go back in time and murder Alexander Graham Bell." He sat up with a groan. "Or was it Edison who invented the phone? I can never remember."
She had to laugh. "I'm pretty sure it was Bell.
Elle Kennedy
#72. Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#73. Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall.
Cindy Skaggs
#74. The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#75. 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
#77. Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face."
--Nero Slyvenski
ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Almney King
#78. There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#79. She looks at me as though she wants to both devour and strangle me. I chuckle softly. She's fucking adorable.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#80. Swallowing, he peered down at Noelle, floored by the sheer calm reflecting back at him. "You okay, babe?"
She rolled her eyes. "Of course. What do you think I am, a pansy-ass damsel who weeps at the first sign of trouble?
Elle Kennedy
#81. Like the dark clouds above that promised rain but withheld it, her presence there was a lie. For in truth, this horrific slaughter had already damned the small race; their fate had already come and gone.
S.J. Pow
#82. If I want to 'f' a guy, I want to 'f' a guy.
S.E. Jakes
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