Quotes About Suspense

Dodge, I'm going to tell you something. Judging by your tone, you're going to have to kill me after. Frankly, I'd just as soon not known.

While we try to find out what happened to her, there's something you should keep in mind." Jess arched a brow. "Oh?" "If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.

Sandra Brown

She heard the rustle of the tarp beneath him

her top and into the elastic waistband of the baggy pants. He lightly ground the heel of his

I'll be watching. -A

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

he ducked his head around the corner he saw that he

Or," Jonah adds, panting, "if she sees us in her room, she might get freaked out and throw Frederic

By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.

First the girl, then the detective, now the wolf. The town was starting to unravel.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

The early shows had the breath of Victorian melodrama: the music had a tingling quality, of time running out or fate closing in. The narration enhanced it: … the hushed voice and the prowling step … the stir of nerves at the ticking of the clock … the rescue that might be too late, or the murderer who might get away … we invite you to enjoy stories that keep you in … Suspense

If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

Mike wished Mr. Burden had chosen another time to be murdered. He was beginning to see that the hour of dressing for dinner might have been expressly designed for persons who need a quiet spell for the commission of crime.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

left for Kenneth.

The story in Lincoln dramatizes the President's efforts to install a 13th Amendment to the Constitution that abolishes slavery. His struggle is more than politically correct; it is presumed inarguably correct which takes the movie outside of history; outside of dramatic immediacy. Watching Lincoln is very much like observing a flesh-and-blood diorama. Everything is soon to be settled (within 2½ hours); there's no emotional suspense.

They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.