Crime Thriller Quotes

“This guy is poised to kill again, and soon. So I need you to get to Crestview pronto. The clock is ticking.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
   Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“You know I’ve seen a lot of evil,” Kozlowski replied. “But the Four Horsemen? The Apocalypse? Nope. Never worked anything like this. Try not to vomit all over yourself.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Some poor soul has been living a nightmare.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Donde, he offered a piece of candy to a little
   boy.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“Rumor traveled fast in a small town like Crestview—so news of a quadruple homicide with biblical implications would travel like wildfire.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“The Four Horsemen ride at Dreamland.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Cole felt something deep inside of him snap. He was done with thinking. He was done being afraid. There was no room for fear when someone’s life was at stake.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“We're selling vacuum cleaners.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“They had gone through so much as children. It had been them against the world. Their bonds forged in the fires of hardship. Bonds that never frayed. Never weakened. They were more than friends; they were chosen family.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“The people have a right to know. And a right to protect themselves. I’m only doing my job.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Time is a luxury we don’t have. Each passing second raises the probability that someone else just took their last breath.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Giving in to the thirst for retribution might offer a fleeting catharsis, but it wouldn’t restore what was lost.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to something. It felt like I was being thrown out of a swing. Then, everything went black.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

“I looked at the face in front of me. ‘Adey?’  ‘Sorry mate. Time’s up!’ he said”
― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

“I can smack a ball-bearing between your abusive fiancé’s eyes before his wingtips hit the sidewalk.”
― M.S.M. Barkawitz

“Recollections of a loved one often trigger feelings of
nostalgia. But, sometimes, the loss is just too raw. The pain too
bitter. And recollection triggers nothing but heartache and despair.
A pain that burns the soul.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“Mr. Ludefance? This is Barnett Hooks. We’re a law firm over here in Tallahassee. I’ve been trying to reach you for over a week as I’m representing a client who is interested in hiring you.”
“I’m currently out of the country, Mr. Hooks. Why don’t you tell me about the nature of the problem? Mind you, I don’t take infidelity cases anymore.”
“No, it’s not that type of case. This is about the late Judge Russell Hastings. He was an appellate judge with the First District Court of Appeals here in Tallahassee who unfortunately was murdered about a year ago.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“In contrast, Anderson was trying hard not to show his brimful-teary eyes. He felt his face heating. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his handkerchief and blew his nose. At the same time, anger began to grow in the pit of his stomach.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“The events unfolded with such speed and efficiency that Anderson found himself in a state of shock. His anger with Bevin and McPhearson was quickly replaced with a sense of impending doom. An unbelievable stream of events had taken place since his training exercises in the Pacific.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“I’m a policeman, he thought, not a moral judge, nor a Peeping Tom.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“It was his job to seek out the truth behind her death, regardless.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“He was probably wasting his time, but a capacity for idle curiosity was no handicap for a policeman.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“Sporadically cars drove past him, their drivers groping their way through the treacly darkness with blinkered headlights.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“The heater spits a chorus of steam, his bones no longer brittle and cold. The ice man melted, a new form waiting to emerge once all the crystals get shaken away.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“There should be multiple yous," Grayson says, outlined by the moonlight, a blue phantasm. "So you can help solve all of our problems. So you can help solve the world's problems.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

“Under fire, trying to get a fugitive out of Honduras: “Their pilot hopped out of the cockpit to allow them entry room. Pack sent Keto [Belgian Malinois K-9] up first. Then he dragged Triandos up. The prisoner’s head pinged off every step on the way up. His head struck the bulkhead as Pack flung his bulk into the cabin. ‘I know there’s a protocol,’ Pack thought, ‘but whoever wrote it was never in this situation.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

“Sometimes abiding by the strictest rules is folly. Give me flexibility, imagination, and audacity over caution any day.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

“I focus on doing my duty within the bounds of the US Constitution and my conscience. As long as I’m doing my job, I don’t worry about much else.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse