Quotes About Suspense

In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.

A shiver climbed Caitlin's arms. She hated having a doorway behind her. Even though the team had cleared the hall, a door always felt like a hungry mouth at her back. And the window opened to darkness. To anyone outside, she and Marston were brightly lit targets.

that was when it happened. A click of her jaw, like a pit bull's or cobra's unlocking

When she returned, there was Coach T. spinning

An arm was instantly around his neck. A dagger to his throat. A savage growl in his ear. Sagra. How he missed her.

To be continued ….

in Baltimore Harbor. While the U-boat haunted Americans

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Good. Now I'm going to go sit down at the table before P.K. uncovers the nuclear launch codes.

If you see Ingrid, don't look at her. Walk the other way." I give him a two-dollar coin and he returns to the background, like he's part of an endless line of characters provided by a talent agency.

Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops." She turned to face Dee and pulled off her dark glasses to reveal the mirrors of her eyes. "You should go now. You've got about three seconds." Dee didn't quite make it out of the shop before it exploded.

For indignation is so easy and satisfying a mood that it is apt to prevent one from attending to any facts that oppose it. If the reader should object that I have abandoned ethics for the false doctrine that 'to understand all is to forgive all,' I can reply that it is only a temporary suspense of ethical judgment, made because 'to condemn much is to understand

But the very next day, a new serial killer filled the place that this one had vacated.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

How darkness infects those among us who can't resist a juicy tale.

We all know Her Creepiness isn't dead." Elena's

Dikkatli olmal?s?n," dedi Raphael doÄŸal olmayan bir sakinlikle. Elena rahatlamad?, a??t hava tehditkar bir vaatle aralar?nda as?l? duruyordu. "Oyun oynamay? sevmem." "ÖÄŸren." sy.33

Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.

from the hook on the door

I stood behind him for nearly a minute-close enough to smell the familar bitter hint of coffee grounds-before he jerked around and whipped off his shades.

Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.