Suspense Quotes - Page 8

I can't help frowning. "But Madison designed that cocktail dress herself...

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

Fantasy games are unbecoming to a lady, she says, closing the subject. "And the idea that you would even dream of spending time with some strange boy when you could be reinforcing your relationship with your Magnolia compatriots leaves me breathless. You are going to have to earn the respect of the other girls.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

[D]ear...You just charmed the pants off her with that hunting trip!

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

Every nerve in my body says to run after Thaddeus and tell him everything. But I know there's no way he can know the truth.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

There you are! Aren't you precious?

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

She's as common as pig tracks. Just her being here lowers the tone of the entire city.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

Magnolia leadership isn't a given. Not forever. You have to earn your spot.

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix

When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you.

Extraordinary women who love and heal.

And now she must continue the day as if the strange dream hadn’t picked up her life and shaken it upside down like a snow globe, dislodging everything that wasn’t glued down."The Dream Jumper's Promise

I only have secrets that keep you safe, Darlin

Kim Hornsby in The Dream Jumper's Secret

His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.

Oh my," she said as though to herself. "The rumors are true, you have been kept in the dark.

Jes Dory

I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.

What do you mean 'has to be?' and what are you smiling at?" I stopped contributing to this ridiculous dance. I grabbed the teapot and began to fill it with water in the sink.Suddenly I felt the slight weight go this body against my back and the corner of his mouth brushed adjacent my ear."How human you are," he whispered.

Jes Dory

My face flushed scarlet. I was a stranger in my own skin. I had ever felt this kind of anger in my life. Fort and confusion grew. Its sensation was an overwhelming concoction of hate. The only things I knew - the only things keeping me remotely calm- was the following litany.My name is Eleanora Ada Stone. I was moved from home to home for seventeen years. I am now living on this god-forsaken island in Maine. I was being kept from a world of secrets. I have abilities. I am not human. I do not know what I am.

Jes Dory

It’s not the dead people you got to worry about… It’s the living that are scary.

Unless the she-wolf agrees, there’s always a chance of rejection.

Zorro pulled her into his arms and crushed her against his body, kissing her soundly on the mouth.t“My, what a big sword you have, sir,” she said, sweeping her hand over his sheathed sword.t“I’m fully armed,” he said, “with that and more.

Brett will need some clothes if someone can drop some by.”t“All we need is a bear rug,” Meghan said.

She was thinking she needed to post a letter in the Lonely Hearts column in the Silver Town Gazette: She-wolf seeking male wolf who believes in ghosts. No others need apply.

You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!

Israelmore Ayivor

Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

Alfred Hitchcock

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

I wake and in those first fuddled moments forget you’re not here. I must have been dreaming about you – a tense, erotic dream. I reach out in bed to the place your body should be. It’s cold and there is no hollow. Even the bed is forgetting you.

Simple" Kate had wanted to say, "I'm already dead.

Kimberly McCreight

I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper.

Lillian R. Melendez

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Lillian R. Melendez

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Anthony Liccione

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

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