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Quotes About Suspicion

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit; she knew that.
~ Virginia Woolf
ÖrneÄŸin zenginler çoÄŸunlukla öfkelidirler, çünkü yoksullar?n onlar?n servetine göz diktiÄŸinden kuÅŸkulan?rlar.
~ Virginia Woolf
She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Wildly, I pursued the shadow of her infidelity; but the scent I travelled upon was so slight as to be practically undistinguishable from a madman's fancy.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Some men might ha' told the police about it—but I never cared much for them. They're like kids in a way, always asking questions—most of which you can't answer.
~ W. W. Jacobs
He told me one day that he was being followed by a lurking suspicion.
~ W.E. Bowman
I explained all this to the police, but they didn't seem too convinced.
~ Laura Durham
If he was poisoned sometime before the tasting, it could have happened to take effect after he ate the soup. Do you know where he was before he came home?" "When we looked in his day planner, I didn't look at today's schedule." Kate shook her head. "I focused on what he did the week of the wedding.
~ Laura Durham
I don't know what this is!" "I do. This is me being framed for murder.
~ Laura Griffin
You look skeptical," she said. "I was born skeptical." "You
~ Laura Griffin
She was linked to these deaths, whether she wanted to be or not, and she might be the only one who could connect the dots.
~ Laura Griffin
But, perhaps, I should have known then, I should have known that night, standing in the kitchen, that foul meat in the air- looking back on it now, I see that it was the end and the beginning of something more than dinner. More than ruined appetite, a postponed meal, a marriage strained, a freezer unplugged. I could smell the death between them.
~ Laura Kasischke
Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
~ Laura Linney
She has no use for women, which is why she has to make sure to befriend them.
~ Laura Lippman
Miguel hated the corn, said the plants seemed . . . alive. When Finn reminded him that, duh, of course the corn was alive, all plants were alive, Miguel replied that the corn sounded alive alive. As if it wasn't just growing, it was ripping itself out of the ground and sneaking around on skinny white roots.
~ Laura Ruby
He had been in this city for barely a fortnight and had concluded it was teeming with ruffians, murderers, and thieves. That he himself was a murderer and a thief was beside the point.
~ Laura Ruby
Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry. Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills. And from my stubborn delusions come a thousand deceits, which later I accept as damage I've done.
~ Laurel Corona
You're still riding home with me right?" He asks Courtney watching me at the corner of his eye. What's with this guy? he looks like he's about one second from taking a baseballbat to my knees. Or wanting to. I wonder if this is how serial killers start out. Wasn't Unabomber really goos at math?
~ Lauren Barnholdt
But it's that fucking dress she's wearing. It's low-cut and tight and just...Jesus. Why would she wear a dress like that? Is she doing it just to torture me? I like the idea that maybe she had me in mind when she picked it out. Of course, she might be wearing it because she wants to get attention from other guys. I look around the wedding suspiciously, trying to see if anyone is looking at her. I don't want to have to punch someone out, but i'll do it if I have to.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
RULE 9: THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE THAT SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE IS WATCHING YOU.
~ Lauren Child
No one in Cattaraugus had much idea of what an artist' colony might be. "Art" itself was viewed with suspicion, scorn. There was the sense, as people like my mother conveyed it, of a fraud, a hustle. "Art" was putting something over on someone, the way politicians did. "Art" was a sorry excuse for not being productive, useful. "Art" was vanity, pretension.
~ Lauren Kelly
suspected that if he returned to Portugal he would be thrown into jail, tried for treason, and executed.
~ Laurence Bergreen