Western Mystery Quotes

#1. Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

George R R Martin

#2. Brick stood silhouetted against the frozen lake through this front window. "Be careful. It sounds like you've got at least one killer out there. Someone who thought they'd gotten away with murder. It's easier to kill after the first time, they say.

B. J. Daniels

#3. When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Anna Kendrick

#4. He met her challenging gaze. "You really have no idea what is good for you," he said as he caged her against the side of the pickup with a hand on each side of her.
I used to think you would be good for me," she said quietly, her voice rough with emotion.

B. J. Daniels

#5. It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."
He laughed. "No, honey, that would be you.

B. J. Daniels

#6. 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

#7. These chocolates made you close your eyes and moan and were right up there with sex. Well, not sex with Hud. Nothing could beat that.

B. J. Daniels

#8. Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

Albert Einstein

#9. You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.

David Kudler

#10. I wasn't born to love you. I was born to lose you. You are my sad song. My melancholy mix. You were my past until you crashed into my present. But you will never be my future.

Katie Kacvinsky

#11. I want you, too, Hayes Cardwell, and that isn't the beer talking."
They were so close she could see the shine of his dark eyes in the starlight. Without another word, he swept her up in his arms and carried her into the cabin.

B. J. Daniels

#12. I know what you're up to."
"I doubt that." Hayes leaned toward her, his hand looping around the back of McKenzie's neck as he gently drew her to him. "Because if you could see what I was up to, then you'd know I was about to kiss you.

B. J. Daniels

#13. She shot him a look she thought he might still remember, the same one a rattler gives right before it strikes.

B. J. Daniels

#14. Hud? Back here? Oh, man, what a birthday present," Hilde said, giving her another hug. "I'm so sorry, sweetie. I can imagine what seeing him again did to you."
"I still want to kill him," Dana whispered.
"Not on your birthday." Hilde frowned.

B. J. Daniels

#15. Brody McTavish. Harper grimaced in embarrassment. She'd been half in love with him as far back as she could remember. Not that he had looked twice at her. He'd been the handsome rowdy teen she used to spy on from a distance.

B. J. Daniels

#16. I want to die."
May shook her head. "Let me get a knife."
"I've made a horrible mess of things."
"Haven't we all? If you don't want your supper burned, die quietly while I get back to the kitchen.

B. J. Daniels

#17. When we were ready we would take a walk, perhaps down to La Boqueria, the food market that we both loved,

David Nicholls

#18. The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream." --Julia Gast in Red Fox Woman

Judy Ann Davis

#19. He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

B. J. Daniels

#20. Good God, how can you kill someone and then take even his own death away from him?

Kamel Daoud

#21. What's for dinner?"
"Roast beef. I heard it was a woman's body buried on Hamilton Ranch and that her body had been mummified."
"Roast beef and mummified should never be used in the same sentence," he joked as he headed toward the refrigerator for a beer.

B. J. Daniels

#22. 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

#23. February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

Judy Nedry

#24. She had to laugh. "You're making me hungry."
"Me, too." His gaze locked with hers, making it clear it wasn't just barbecue he was hungry for.

B. J. Daniels

#25. 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

#26. You're a real cowboy."
He laughed. "You're just now realizing that?

B. J. Daniels