Top 100 Thriller Mystery Quotes
#1. If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
Nancy Kress
#2. In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
Sean Terrence Best
#4. Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons.
Andrew Barrett
#5. I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.
J. Everett Prewitt
#6. Calvi was sobbing. This couldn't be! A moment ago the Pope was healthy, smiling. How could His Holiness be no longer? Only a month into his papacy!
Peter J. Tanous
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
Rajib Mukherjee
#10. Hopefully you're on the edge of your seat when reading WUWPOO. That's my favorite reading position.
S.N. Deinscheiss
#11. I don't mind my friends calling me "Thornes," but the fact of people calling me "Prickly Thornes" draws the line.
Simi Sunny
#12. Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.
Carolyn Wheat
#13. She was murdered fifty years ago, right here in Savannah. They found her body floating in the river.
Lindsay Marie Miller
#14. I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
Catherine Hardwicke
#15. Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into the darkness that claimed his soul.
Wyatt Michael
#16. But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.
Ali Smith
#17. No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.
Andrew Barrett
#18. Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job.
Otsuichi
#19. At the witching hour, the city was totally silent. Only the wind of portent blew through the gathered council of whispering brick chimneys on the rooftops, delivering the hand that would write upon the wall.
Wyatt Michael
#20. 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
#21. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.
Jon Michaelsen
#23. I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.
Simon Toyne
#24. 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
#25. This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?
From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets.
Robert Delgado
#26. I try to read and write something interesting every day.
Dave Vizard
#27. Blood doesn't speak of its owner.
Mita Jain
#28. Do it once and do it right and do it quickly
Lee Child
#29. There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person's appearance that you're about to pump for info.
Ruth Bainbridge
#30. ...Miss Seeley came in.... She was a little older, a little thinner. Her tailored pinstriped suit emphasized the boniness of her figure. But she still wore hopeful white ruffles at her wrists and throat.
Ross Macdonald
#31. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.
Paula Hawkins
#32. You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.
Shirley B. Garrett
#33. What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?
Suzanne Rindell
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. You're a real cowboy."
He laughed. "You're just now realizing that?
B. J. Daniels
#37. If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you're probably in the wrong lane.
ARKOPAUL
#38. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.
T.L. Parker
#40. Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.
R.W. Rivers
#41. They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.
Cassandra Giovanni
#43. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill
H.A. Corby
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#48. And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, 'Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Peter J. Tanous
#49. The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Laurie Stevens
#50. It's so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception
Michael Allan Scott
#51. 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
#53. What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?
Peter J. Tanous
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.
Ruth Ford Elward
#58. You killed me." My voice was unsteady.
He held me close again. "I brought you back."
"Please tell me we only have to do that once."
He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke
Catrina Burgess
#59. give a smile, get a smile, keep a smile
V.L.Z.
#60. I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.
Jeannie Walker
#61. Close your eyes and click your heals three times ... because there's no place like Dome.
Stephen King
#62. Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.
StorySmitten
#63. What to do? Fight it or play along? Was God behind it?
Peter J. Tanous
#64. The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models. We came hardwired with different stories, dark secrets, vices, and defects. Over time, we fail and come to find our end, but the city continues onwards.
Cristina Martin
#65. Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...
Peter J. Tanous
#66. I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.
Chuck Palahniuk
#67. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#68. Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed.
Howard Odentz
#69. 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
#70. It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.
Jon Michaelsen
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.
I.J. Parker
#75. 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
#76. From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.
Agatha Christie
#77. At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.
Gillian Flynn
#78. What do you think books will look like 50 years from now.
M. Scott
#79. He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.
Patricia Cornwell
#80. I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn't. Okay?
Andrew Barrett
#81. 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
#82. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.
J.P. Bloch
#83. Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.
Jeannie Walker
#84. 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
#85. Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are
Catrina Burgess
#86. It's a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.
Scott Overton
#87. 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
#88. He was a Super Politician, defender of untruths, injustice and the American power-play.
B.V. Lawson
#89. What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?
Jennifer Walkup
#90. Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.
H.C. Deboard
#91. We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.
G.G. Collins
#92. If he can't reach you he can't hit you
If he can't hit you he can't hurt you
Arun D. Ellis
#93. She's a princess and you're a jock," he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain. And you're a criminal. You're all walking teen-movie stereotypes.
Karen M. McManus
#94. Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology.
Peter J. Tanous
#95. A killer on the payroll isn't good for business
L.A. Larkin
#96. Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#97. You don't look like much, but they say you murdered that other chick.
Treating Murder
Gabrielle Black
#98. People never think of a child as being a monster, because if they did, they would never be able to sleep at night. Children are where lies peoples hopes, dreams, innocence... Not where lies murder.
Chelsea Radojcic
#99. He walked away. It was a shame really, but what could I do? He was the law; I broke the law, two things one should never combine.
From WIP The Trinity Saints
Leslie Dawn Nash
#100. Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.
Paul Di Filippo
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