339 Quotes About Mystery-suspense

You saved my life once and I know you’ll find Tammy for me, but I know none of that really means anything to you. You’re helping me the way you’d help a hurt dog. Which doesn’t exactly make me feel good. But you don’t know that because you won’t let anyone in. I’ve been banging on that particular door for years. Mostly it’s been a waste of time. Even just six months ago, if I’d said all this you would have smiled me and ignored me because you’d have no idea what I meant.

I was hungry for another viewpoint, to see Julia for the first time.

When I saw her come in that night with you, I said to myself, Now there’s a handful, because I thought she’d be snooty, you see. It was the way she carried her head.

You couldn’t see her good points for her bad. Ah, now your face is closing up. I haven’t seen that face in a while. No doubt you’re thinking, He doesn’t know the half of it and I’m not going to ruin his image of his fiancée by telling him. Tell me, did she try to seduce you? Yes, I thought so. She tried it with all my other friends who didn’t like her.”“I-““Oh, I know, you turned her down.

Oh, you won’t kill yourself, you’re too self-centered and you’re too stubborn to go mad. So that means you’ll have to cope.

Death is not something I like to play guessing games with.

Promises were useless in the face of torture.

Her back was straight, she moved with enormous, fragile dignity.

The first thing that caught her eye was one of J.C. Dahl’s huge paintings of fjord light and water. She stood before it and her restlessness dropped away. She became as still as the deep dark of the fjord. I know if I put my hands on her shoulders, they would be soft and relaxed. This was a Julia I had not seen before: distant, analytical, expert.