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Quotes About Suspicion

They were made by Miss Lucy!
~ Bram Stoker
It is strange that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very peculiar man!
~ Bram Stoker
Country gentlemen who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the country gentlemen were not made comfortable by this thought. The country gentlemen had a strong suspicion that cleverness was somehow unBritish.
~ Susanna Clarke
Nan told me Clegg had been hanged for stealing a book, but the charge Robert Findhelm brought against him was not theft. The charge Findhelm brought against him was book-murder.
~ Susanna Clarke
To his surprise and suspicion, she smiled.
~ Suzanne Enoch
She pursed her lips. Satisfied I'm not carrying a concealed weapon? I have no idea where you'd keep one, if you were, he returned, sliding his gaze along the length of her. Thanks for noticing.
~ Suzanne Enoch
At times Valentine wasn't sure whether he kept Matthews about because of his supreme unctuousness or because he had half a suspicion the valet was trying to kill him.
~ Suzanne Enoch
What the devil are you doing here?' Rafe demanded, eyeing him suspiciously. Warefield raised his eyebrows. 'You asked for help.' 'I asked for money.' 'It's the same thing.' 'No, it's not. You-' 'And who might this be?
~ Suzanne Enoch
Estás espiándome otra vez? —Echándote un ojo protector.
~ Sylvia Day
I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.
~ Sylvia Plath
I had a suspicion that my mother had called Jody and begged her to ask me out, so I wouldn't sit around in my room all day with the shades drawn. I didn't want to go at first, because I thought Jody would notice the change in me, and that anybody with half an eye would see I didn't have a brain in my head.
~ Sylvia Plath
I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicious I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer.
~ Sylvia Plath
with girls (house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? the damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity and meaness like animals smell blood)
~ Sylvia Plath
Crains, dans le mur aveugle, un regard qui t'épie!
~ T.S. Eliot
violence spreads like a virus by contaminating others. ... Jealousy and suspicion spread like viruses too.
~ Tabish Khair
drawing another chorus of groans. "Bondurant won't talk to us, and I don't like that. He told
~ Tami Hoag
Evvy: Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least. Briar: No — if she bit him, he'd die.
~ Tamora Pierce
He knows about things like betrayal, and being afraid, and the looks on people's faces when they know you did something they thought impossible
~ Tamora Pierce
Flavian Estemba, generally called "Mercurio" by those who knew him, stared toward the street, feigned vertigo, swayed first forward over the drop, next back, and so gracefully and bonelessly fell into the garden, and into the arms of Romulan, who, with a curse, caught him.
~ Tanith Lee
We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.
~ Tennessee Williams
There would be whispers. There were always whispers. And whispers, if left unchecked, could quickly grow into roars.
~ Julia Quinn
Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor!
~ Julian Fellowes
When grief is becoming, it is also suspect.
~ Julian Fellowes
The sad truth is, they should never trust me.
~ Julie Anne Peters