Quotes About Suspense

1. Get Attention Immediately Begin Your Talk with an Incident—Example Arouse Suspense State an Arresting Fact Ask for a Show of Hands Promise to Tell the Audience How They can Get Something They Want Use an Exhibit

Leslie Titmuss bothered me. His name, it made me want to sneeze. I also thought I recognized it. I typed it into my laptop, a procedure that had lately held far too much suspense for me. Among the top results the search returned was a page from GoodReads, a literary website.

Purple Noon.

Ed held his sword tight in both hands and went slowly and carefully down. There was the unmistakable smell of sicko down here and Ed's throat was very dry.

You should have me restrained,' she said. 'I could kill you. You never know when I might have a razor blade tucked up my sleeve.' 'Why kill me now?' Archie said. 'It would seem anticlimactic.

This is not a nice vampire, Claire. It feeds people to its pets." "Well, you know how monsters are." Grinning.

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha

Never Explain Anything

There is nothing like a murderer, who's been kept on tender hooks for a while.

We live in weary suspense," DeLong wrote. "Wintering in the pack may be a thrilling thing to read about alongside a warm fire, but the actual thing is sufficient to make any man prematurely old.

I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, 'No, the scariest noise is, you're all alone in your dark house, you know you're all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles—and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush.

When will it begin, anyway?" Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't understand. "Probably sooner than you're ready for." "When's that?" "Well." Sirus sighed, as if doing the math in his head."It'll take us about three minutes to gather this stuff and get to the cabin, and another two or three for Abraham to realize you're here. So I'd say you have about seven more minutes of freedom left.

She didn't turn but ran down the length of the beach, searching the sand and the water, looking for any hint as to where the body had been moved. "What, Alex?" Jay shouted. "You saw a corpse, but it rolled down the beach to catch the sun better?" She stopped then, whirling around. "It's moved," she said, walking back to where Jay stood. "Your corpse got up and walked?

Heather Graham

think back to the first case with the white horse, and finding the woman crucified in the Everglades. I think about putting away a bad guy, and then receiving the little red horse when we were vacationing before.

he was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something

Lawrence Sanders

about superspies and

Somehow he promised each of us a great romance, without a touch or a word. He was an accomplished tease.

This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

It's rarely good when someone says your full name, except perhaps when it's at the end of "I have a package for.

It was amazing, she thought, how everything having to do with Count Olaf was frightening.