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Quotes About Suspicion

The killer could have sent it, so it looked like she was alive.
~ Sharon Dunn
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
~ Sharon Gillenwater
The man holding my hand was slim and wiry. Cropped black hair framed a face full of angles. He studied me with more curiosity than sympathy. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> He had the rough-edged look of a suspect on Crime Stoppers, complete with dark, piercing eyes. "My name is Kieran." He eased his hand away from mine, as though embarrassed by his earlier compassion. "A friend brought you here.
~ Sharon Hinck
How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth
~ Sharon Shinn
Why had the counterfeit timbre of his voice rung true to me? What had prompted me to believe a man who spent most of his life dissembling? Why had I, usually so suspicious, become so credulous and simpleminded in his presence? Was it just that I had wanted to hear someone tell me he loved me? Was it just that the words he spoke, the vows he swore, were so freighted with sweetness that they would have seemed true no matter who spoke them?
~ Sharon Shinn
When women and girls experienced throughout life such systematic sexual aggression from men it was realistic and reasonable for women to be resistant to and suspicious of male sexuality. The focus moved away from women as the problem to a critique of male sexual behaviour and an analysis of the ways in which men's sexual violence sustained their power.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
A teenage girl, brutally murdered and left in a trash dumpster; a young man, killed in a firebombing attack; a soccer mom, shot in the living room of her home; vicious thugs whose job is to protect a suspected criminal. Just another week on rotation for LAPD detective Joel Jovanic...until he uncovers a connection between the disturbing series of vicious crimes and Annabelle Giordano, who is in the temporary custody of his soulmate, Claudia Rose.
~ Sheila Lowe
And the killer knows you and doesn't know how much you've figured out.
~ Sheila Webster Boneham
Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the last thing they read.
~ Shelly Branch
It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.
~ Newt Gingrich
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.
~ Gordon S. Wood
Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something.
~ Jim Butcher
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
~ Jon Ronson
When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.
~ Josh Lanyon
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
~ Franz Kafka
Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.
~ Thomas Paine
She did not wish the girl to be beguiled by such a practiced and heartless charmer.
~ Mary Balogh
What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)
~ Mary Doria Russell
Very little," Ash said honestly. "I'd believe very little you told me." "Because I'm a traitor, in your eyes?" "No," she said. "Because you're a traitor in your eyes.
~ Mary Gentle
People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
~ Mary Shelley
Puede que sea inocente del crimen, ¡pero está claro que tiene mala conciencia!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley