Top 100 Suspense Thriller Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone.
Peter Benchley
#4. 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
#5. Hello my darling,
I'm your real father. I've been searching for you ever since you were stolen from me. I love you so much.
Daddy
Sanjida Kay
#6. 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
#7. I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.
Cheryl Rainfield
#8. 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
#9. It's so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception
Michael Allan Scott
#10. Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.
Ashwin Sanghi
#11. She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.
Elle Kennedy
#12. Giving him a wry look, Shiloh said, "I think you're forcing me to look at myself, what I want, who I am."
"Good relationships always do that for both people, Darlin'. It's just a natural progression between them. It can bring out our self-awareness. It's not easy. But it's rewarding.
Lindsay McKenna
#13. Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you're in love, I suppose everything feels like a game.
S.E. Lynes
#14. I didn't burn down anyone's house! I didn't. I wouldn't!"
Maddie looked at Jacob.
"You know I wouldn't. I didn't kill you when I had the chance!
Christina Dodd
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill
H.A. Corby
#18. Where did you grow up?"
He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?
Dana Marton
#19. Eric waited all his life for love and, in meeting, Tina thought he had it. What he got wasn't quite what he'd dreamed about.
E.J. Caulder
#20. I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
Cecile De France
#21. They shared a sensation that was as addictive as a needle full of heroin to a street junkie.
Paige Dearth
#22. He couldn't jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers.
B. J. Daniels
#23. She took his finger and placed a small kiss on the end of it. "You're just full of surprises, Taggart." She saw him give her a very pleased male smile.
"Stick around, Darlin', there's more to me than meets your eyes."
"Should I be afraid?
Lindsay McKenna
#25. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.
T.L. Parker
#26. 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
#27. Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#28. The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.
Christina Dodd
#29. 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
#30. I cannot believe the sensuality of admiration can measure the depth of beauty that is bestowed upon you.
Bibhu Datta Rout
#31. What do you think books will look like 50 years from now.
M. Scott
#32. 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
#33. Your best kicks ass and takes names," Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.
Allen Zadoff
#34. 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
#35. 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
#37. As Evelyn slid to a stop in the center of the hallway, Butler calmly shook his head. Then he lifted his machine gun and fired.
Elizabeth Heiter
#38. 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
#39. The greatest compliments I've ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.
H.E. Fairbanks
#40. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#41. Live fast, Die pretty!" ~Mercedes Delaware
Lori Meckley
#42. He didn't want to take advantage of her? Fine, she'd take advantage of him.
Katie Reus
#43. The sheer strength of the storm lifted my body further and I began twisting with it like a ballerina in an out of control pirouette.
Elle Klass
#44. There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a commando team to take a dump.
Allen Zadoff
#45. give a smile, get a smile, keep a smile
V.L.Z.
#46. The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.
Ruth Ford Elward
#47. 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
#48. You don't like to talk to people, do you? I mean, slamming the door in my face was a clue that was hard to miss. I'm perceptive like that.
Susannah Sandlin
#49. 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
#50. My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen - numb.
J. Kahele
#51. She growled.
He gave her a considering look. "That's almost sexy.
Dana Marton
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Oh God," Jenna said, "will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind?
Richard Finney
#56. She was murdered fifty years ago, right here in Savannah. They found her body floating in the river.
Lindsay Marie Miller
#57. I don't mind my friends calling me "Thornes," but the fact of people calling me "Prickly Thornes" draws the line.
Simi Sunny
#58. 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
#59. This thing I feel for you... I've never felt like this about anyone, Tegan.
Katie Reus
#60. 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
#61. Hopefully you're on the edge of your seat when reading WUWPOO. That's my favorite reading position.
S.N. Deinscheiss
#62. It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening.
J.D. Masterson
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. There's always enough retribution to be dealt.
Amber Silvia
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. The one ring, to rule them all'? Sounds very far-fetched to me!
Graham Downs
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Just when he thinks he's adjusting to anxiety as a constant condition, Jake feels several internal organs shrinking.
Peter Blauner
#73. Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next."
"Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.
Dana Marton
#75. 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
#76. We're going to have such fun, you and I.
J.D. Barker
#77. You're a real cowboy."
He laughed. "You're just now realizing that?
B. J. Daniels
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Outrage steamed her brain. "I've waited three days... Do you know what day it is?"
He gave a one-sided shrug, his massive shoulder muscles shifting. "Who has time to check the calendar when people are shooting at you and snakes are biting you in the ass?
Dana Marton
#82. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.
Paula Hawkins
#83. If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy SEALS.
He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion.
Dana Marton
#84. Comforting assurance cannot be felt if the distance is measurable" - Wheels of Wish
Bibhu Datta Rout
#85. That look he was giving her right now made everything stand still...
Matilda Wren
#86. A man coalesced before me, his face ambiguous, and his voice that of demon spawn. It mocked my existence.
Elle Klass
#87. Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#88. For me, writing isn't about money and fame. It's about passion, an art form that I want to share with the world, expand the horizons to new worlds, new experiences, and new adventures.
Jason W. Blair
#89. In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
Sean Terrence Best
#90. Oh, God. Not again."
Not again?
"Do you make a habit of driving into people's houses?
Christina Dodd
#91. You want to come back to the bank vault?" Jack says.
The bank vault. That's what Jack calls his house.
Allen Zadoff
#92. Looking at Athena now, he couldn't believe he'd been dumb enough to walk away from her. When he'd realized how innocent she was it had freaked him out, to put it mildly. Had made him feel guilty for the dirty things he'd said to her, wanted to do to her. With her ---
Katie Reus
#94. 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
#95. When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can't even dream of her ...
Richard Finney
#96. 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
#97. It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
Dermot Davis
#98. I don't want you to think about anyone in your past. No now, not ever again. You deserved a hell of a lot more than any of those bastards gave you."
"If it helps," she said with a faint smile, "I killed most of them.
Elle Kennedy
#99. 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
#100. 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
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