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Quotes About Suspense

She didn't want to go up to him and find him dead. She'd found enough dead people, their bodies soaking in bright red blood. Who knew there was do much blood in the human body? Or that it could be so sticky and get everywhere?
~ Christine Feehan
Christine Feehan
~ Shadow Game
She didn't want to go up to him and find him dead. She'd found enough dead people, their bodies soaking in bright red blood. Who knew there was so much blood in the human body? Or that it could be so sticky and get everywhere?
~ Christine Feehan
Christine Feehan
~ lead you back.
Know what I like about mysteries? They're mysterious.
~ Christopher Moore
There's something out on the wing. Sir I can assure you that--Fuck, there's something out on the wing. Told you.
~ Christopher Moore
Don't care. It's a mystery. Know what I like about mysteries? They're mysterious.
~ Christopher Moore
the first batch of ads just after the couple broke up, and the second just before they got together again...two moments that the sponsors considered so suspenseful that the listener wouldn't be able to step away from the radio for fear of missing the resolution.
~ Trevanian
That was when I saw the Pendulum.
~ Umberto Eco
The name hung between them like a motionless pendulum, waiting for a push to set it in motion.
~ Val McDermid
les hommes sont tous condamnés à mort avec des sursis indéfinis.
~ Victor Hugo
And speaking of fight action, there is one place where Old Man Suspense can be made to work like an Elkton marrying parson.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Bad magic happens" Ash Redfern
~ L.J. Smith
One of them flicked out a knife and slit the tape.
~ L.J. Smith
Co kdybych t? drahá ob?sil?" Usmála se na n?ho dol?, snad mu dob?e nerozum?la, on se usmál též, kopl do židle a bylo to.
~ Ladislav Fuks
Innocently, as they moved past her, she added, "Oh, and don't trip over the body on the floor.
~ Laini Taylor
I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
~ Lana Parrilla
You know that feeling," she said, "when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.
~ Cassandra Clare
Who's there?" he called, then frowned. "Of course," he added, addressing the darkness all around, "even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone who yells 'Who's there?' is going to be instantly killed.
~ Cassandra Clare
Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
~ Cassandra Clare
Well, what? Sophie-" "I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it was quite heavy. She went down just like a stone, miss. So I...I tied her to the bed and I came looking for you.
~ Cassandra Clare
As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
~ Cassandra Clare
Cuando estás leyendo un libro, y sabes que habrá una tragedia; puedes sentir el frió y la oscuridad llegando, ver la red tejiéndose cerca de los personajes que viven y respiran en las páginas. Pero estas tan atado a la historia como si fueras tirado detrás de un carruaje, y no puedes dejarlo pasar o cambiar el rumbo haciéndose a un lado.
~ Cassandra Clare
Okay, welcome to Creepy Territory. Here's your map.
~ Cate Tiernan