Top 100 Suspense Fiction Quotes
#1. Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book 'On Writing' before I read pretty much any of his fiction.
Michael Koryta
#2. An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville's THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.
Jeff Abbott
#4. If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?
Noorilhuda
#5. I haven't always been a patient man ... but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.
Sam Langley
#6. Hey, when you love a woman, and when she's this crazy in love with you, you've got to do whatever she says, man.
Arby Robbins
#7. The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread its
wings and fly away.
-TARA
Amita Trasi
#8. 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
#9. I wonder if every girl yearns for her father's love,
almost like waiting to catch the moon hiding in the trees - beautiful, yet so eternally elusive.
-MUKTA
Amita Trasi
#10. 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
#13. The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.
Noorilhuda
#14. Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.
E.J. Stevens
#15. He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.
Noorilhuda
#16. She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.
Mary Papas
#17. You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased.
'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'
James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?
Brandi Salazar
#19. I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead.
Brooklyn June
#20. One honorable young man can make all the difference ...
Robert L. Beck
#21. Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?
Jennifer Walkup
#22. The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#23. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.
Noorilhuda
#24. Wolfman clears everything off the table except his gun. That he keeps close at hand. There is a sense of ceremony about his actions. My stomach tightens up. We are about to begin.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#25. 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
#27. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?
Noorilhuda
#28. Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.
Angelika Rust
#29. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman
Lauren B. Grossman
#30. As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air.
Nancy B. Brewer
#31. There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other side scorched, but not consumed by it.
J.L. Murphey
#32. God's got my picture,' Piper reiterated, 'taped right up there on his big, big, giiinormous fridge.' She smiled. 'Because he's crazy about me. And about you, too.
Candace Calvert
#33. He looked steadily in my eyes, and held my hand affectionally. Narissa, let me take you away to a world that you have never known to exist.
Keira D. Skye
#34. Never give up no matter how tough the road seems,keep going and visualize yourself in the realm of what you are going to achieve.
Sharyan Alleyne
#35. Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn't know why or how, but there was something waiting for her on the other side of this crowd.
V.S. Kemanis
#36. Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.
K. Chrisbacher
#37. I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.
William Landay
#38. How can I be more important than someone else? Isn't every life important?
Shelley K. Wall
#39. You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.
Dawn M. Turner
#40. Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.
Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.
Anthea Carson
#41. Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.
R. Barri Flowers
#42. His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.
("Introduction")
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#43. How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?
Noorilhuda
#44. I want you to grab hold of the brass spindles and don't let go." When she did as he required, he spread her legs wider. "Hold tight, baby. This is going to feel so good.
Maggie Adams
#45. Perfection is found in the doing, not in the results.
Clay Mitchell
#46. Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.
Dorothy W. Cosey
#47. Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.
Humairaa Anseline
#48. That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want - or want what you find.
Tami Hoag
#50. I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.
Steve Hamilton
#51. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.
Gwenn Wright
#52. Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
William Bernhardt
#53. 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
#54. Wishing you the best adventures in reading and in life!
Sass Cadeaux
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. He had always liked a good mess - God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed his brows and muttered, bring it on.
Shelley K. Wall
#59. The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!
Tasha Alexander
#60. Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible!
Garry E. Lewis
#61. Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.
Sandy Vaile
#62. 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
#63. You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood.
Raphael Sinclair
Helen Maryles Shankman
#64. Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.
Gloria Mallette
#65. God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone.
Peter Benchley
#67. 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
#68. Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.
Yawatta Hosby
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#76. 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
#78. The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.
Genie Frisbee
#79. Have sex with Adam? I'd rather grab a defibrillator paddle and burn the other side of my face.
Faith Sullivan
#80. It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#81. There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
Mark Billingham
#83. 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
#84. The old fire pit was ancient. I couldn't say how many of my ancestors warmed themselves at this outdoor hearth. Sitting around it was rather affecting, especially when you thought about the countless people who had occupied your very spot in some distant past. It was kind of surreal.
J.M. Northup
#85. 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
#86. The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.
Nancy B. Brewer
#87. Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored ...
Sarah Kernochan
#88. Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.
Julie Garwood
#89. 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
#90. It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
Angel Ramon Medina
#91. As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or what is imagination versus undiscovered truth, but ultimately, it is my job to make you as unsure as I am.
Kathryn Mattingly
#92. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#93. 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
#94. I shut up. I don't fight, I don't scream. Shame rides alongside my terror. But somewhere deep, deep inside, I hear Mom tell me to trust my gut. My gut tells me I am blind and I am lost, and if I fought for freedom now, it would end in my death. I listen to my gut. Because I want to live.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#95. How dare she not give in to his "vulnerability." There was only so much rejection he could take.
Yawatta Hosby
#96. 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
#97. The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters
R.J. Peters
#98. Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn't kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.
V.S. Kemanis
#99. Ah yes, now you're beginning to feel it. It's so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart - if I had one.
Jaye Frances
#100. You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better
Mary Papas
