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.

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

“Holy Christ, people, we’ve accidentally done what we sold to the public.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

“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

“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

“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

“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

“…I think what I fear most isn't loss itself, but the emptiness that follows. The space where something once lived, but now only echoes. I fear meaning slipping through my fingers. I fear becoming a spectator to my own life. Watching the things I love turn to shadows.”
― Roxana M. Rotaru, Chemical Souls

“Every lie is a weapon. And someone just pulled the trigger.”
― K.T Elis

“The most dangerous thing is not what we’re told, but what we choose not to see.”
― Iris Soldani, Ibiza: Le prix du paradis

“Don’t trust the mirror. They know who you are.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Last Memory

“Truth never runs; it only waits for the right eyes”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Silent Witness: Act I – Shadows and Suspicions

“Because sometimes, even when you can’t see their face…
you can still feel them watching.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, TOXIC OBSESSION

“Do not forget who you are… Do you remember what you left behind?”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Whispering House

“Trust few. Even friends wear masks.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Forgotten Heiress

“Not wrong enough to see. Just wrong enough to feel.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Reflection

“The world appluads the performance, never the pain behind it.”
― Gerard Stahl, The Paper Cut Manifesto: Every Star Has Secrets. Hers Left Scars.