Quotes About Suspense

If he had been, say, the Count of Monte Cristo, he would have drawn from his pocket a small and exquisitely wrought phial, two drops from which would have brought the colour to her cheeks. Her dark eyes might then have rested with gratitude on her deliverer; she might have languidly extended her hand for him to kiss, a thought at which he was so overcome that he had to stop for a moment and recover himself.

He ate with her before he killed her?

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Drama starts where logic ends.

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

'Homeland' does have that ability to tear the rug out from under you.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

It's . . . it's in the apartment.

I saw that — that black thing squatting like an ape among the branches, leering down at me.

A leg?" repeated Detective Inspector Eric Wardle on the end of the line. "A fucking leg? " "And it's not even my size," said Strike, a joke he would not have made had Robin been present.

Robert Galbraith

Over time, he'd come to understand that in some dark corner of his mind, he'd been dreading and half-expecting the news. The ax had fallen at last, suspense was forever over . . .

Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith

abduct Peggy Hiskett, he wasn't the Essex Butcher,

Landry case and—Jesus—didn't someone just send you a

like the first had been

Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith