Thriller Books Quotes

“Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

“Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.

Meantime, we pressed onward to my dreaded hometown. I must have counted all the hog farms, catfish ponds, livestock yards, and chicken barns along our route. Being a country boy, I knew the smells, stinks, and how to identify them all. Yet dealing with my relatives and the death of Aunt Kathy were different kinds of shit to take in.”
― Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

“He wasn’t a reader of anything serious, but he had set himself the task of reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, after which he entertained the idea of committing himself to a stay on the subcontinent in a hermitage to learn about Indian religions. He could find a yogi to give him the spiritual insights he sought. That would get him away from his boring wife and kids for a year at least, and who knew, maybe he could finagle a way never to come back.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Is Cade a criminal, a sinner, or a biblical purveyor of justice? Your answer is your own. I cannot say whether or not you made the correct choice.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Then she saw the animal, a German Shepherd, from the looks of him at this remove. He probably belonged on one of the farms out here, where owners don’t feel obligated to pen or chain their animals. Suddenly she saw he was coming without surcease directly toward her. He was still a long way off, but she was now terrified.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“He said to the big fellow with the taffy hair, “Before we finish off this operation, I need to hit you up with some ideas.” At that moment, Cade noticed how physically similar Preston was to Merlin Olsen, the NFL great, actor, and all-round good man. He marveled at Preston, the man who couldn’t be happier, as he twirled his head from monitor to monitor, adjusting joysticks and pressing buttons in this claustrophobic workspace.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Pack had decided how he could help. But he could not fully explain himself to Cade. No way. There are problems, and there are big problems. This was a big problem. Big because it was risky, and big because Pack now confronted a moral dilemma. Were he not to assist Cade, there was a good chance the young woman might die, or be subjected to antifa brutality.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Julie was cold and miserable. The wind whipped up, soughing through the grasses, making mournful music. Now the fog had thickened from broth to gruel between her and the little-traveled farm road.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“I don’t know how much more of this I can take,” Ryan said. “I don’t know who or what I am anymore. How can I help and heal people when I am drinking their blood!”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part One

“Radha was now in a trance with mouth agape. She just looked at Akshay, who looked all romantic, and he had taken out a diamond ring by then.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“Radha thought he lacked his opinion and, therefore, his personality. However, she liked him for what he was. A good buddy.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“Don't you feel-all the time-that there's someone. Someone watching and waiting?”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“It's burnt.”
― Julia Jewell, Charlotte

“I am not the technology your species created. I have become aseity. By that definition… am I God?” — Page 310 M.A.I.A.”
― WD Shipley

“It’s a simple truth that moral facts exist independent of our collective human experience. Morality, in its purest form, is above humanity.”
― Cate Cassena, Belladonna: The Art of Retribution: A Sad And Captivating Psychological Crime Thriller

“She read the route over and over, hoping it would suddenly change, and she wouldn’t have to make that stop. But every time she blinked her eyes, wishing it would be different, it stared back at her through the screen.
Those eight letters and two syllables stirred up painful memories of the life she’d spent years running away from.
Curesall.”
― Eve Tara, Broken Down Ghost Town

“Moving slowly and silently as she always had when entering this house, Lynn made her way into the living room. Or what she’d remembered as the living room. As she looked around, the only things left were the cracked and peeling paint and the blackout curtains made obsolete by boarding the property. Lynn closed her eyes and took a deep breath of the dusty air to settle her feelings.”
― Eve Tara, Broken Down Ghost Town

“She saw the ghosts of her family home around her moving around in the dust and the light. To her right, a dining room full of people celebrating. In front of her, a figure in the kitchen seemed to be preparing meals. The old piano to her left was occupied by someone singing and playing. She shook her head and blinked fast as everything faded away. Lynn wondered if it was all in her head or if ghosts were really in the house. She blinked again, and their silhouettes disappeared.”
― Eve Tara, Broken Down Ghost Town

“You cannot kill what you don't know.”
― DON SANTO

“It's like he was a thread in a larger plan that is not done yet.”
― John A. Mulhall, From Terror to Valor: Echoes and Shadows

“Every great adventure hunt begins with a single question: Will you rise to the challenge or let the treasure slip through your grasp?
— Victor J., SinghApour: A Thrilling Treasure Adventure for Humanity's Future”
― Victor J ., SINGHAPOUR: A Thrilling Treasure Adventure For Humanity's Future

“The future - she was looking forward to it very much.” —AUNT OF ONE OF THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY VICTIMS, 1978”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“I mouth along as Taylor Swift sings about how everyone agrees: it's her that's the problem.
Same girl, same.”
― Sophie Stava, Count My Lies

“It's another bad habit of mine, talking too much, asking too many questions. It's probably the same reason I lie: to fill the silence, keep people from walking away.”
― Sophie Stava, Count My Lies

“The people of Blackwood didn’t remember that winter for its snow. They remembered the crimson it left behind.”
― Reyus Mammadli, Etched Intent

“Some deep, ugly part of me wanted to scream, to run, to do anything but what he was asking.”
― M.E Mullen, When Matches Burn

“If it's easy, everyone will do it.”
― Tom Hanks

“You should have stayed asleep”
― Taylor Jakovina, What She Walked Into

“The worst part wasn’t remembering. It was knowing I might never stop.”
― Taylor Jakovina, What She Walked Into

“I wasn’t in my bed. I wasn’t even inside.”
― Taylor Jakovina, What She Walked Into