Psychological Thriller Quotes

“You're driving me NORMAL!”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter

“I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.”
― Nicci French, Killing Me Softly

“I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.
In that case, I’m not only your enemy, I’m your nightmare.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.”
― stephen king, Dolores Claiborne

“What is the nature of your emergency?”
“I was assaulted in the street,” Krissa responds.
“What is the location of the assault?”
“At my current coordinates.”
“Do you need medical attention?”
“No, but my attackers do.”
― Stephen Alder, Deehabta’s Song

“Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.”
― Heena Rathore P., Deceived

“I don't make threats," she said. "I make reality.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man

“You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski”
― Laurie Stevens, The Dark Before Dawn

“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne”
― Laurie Stevens, The Dark Before Dawn

“My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“I don’t want to leave. I’m not sure how to carry on without you. We’ve always been together.
“And that will never change. You’ll still be able to watch over me and keep me safe.”
I’m not going to say goodbye then. See you later?
“You bet,” Karlee said. “But not for another sixty years or so.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossover

“I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like?”
― Andrew M. Ryan, The Labbitt Halsey Protocol

“I went over to where Ted was leaning against the green cinderblock wall. He was sitting with his legs splayed out below the bulletin board, which was full of notices from the Mathematical Society of America, which nobody ever read, Peanuts comic strips (the acme of humor, in the late Mrs. Underwood’s estimation), and a poster showing Bertrand Russell and a quote: “Gravity alone proves the existence of God.” But any undergraduate in creation could have told Bertrand that it has been conclusively proved that there is no gravity; the earth just sucks.”
― Richard Bachman

“You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you'll be afraid to look away, you'll be afraid to sleep.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man

“When authors write, who do they describe: themselves, characters or the readers? But, characters cannot be the characters, because in every book the main character is writer slash author. Because they went through it before they wrote it." She finished wiping her mouth with napkin a d dropped her tissue beside her plate.”
― Iqra Bi Ansari, Rahatan Nafsia: The Lost Pearl

“When we got married, I poured all my energy into turning myself into the wife he wanted. I never wore my hair up, because he'd commented that my ears were big. I let him answer questions when we had company, because he'd said I tended to ramble. I felt like a human-shaped shell, hollowing myself out for my husband so he could fill me with his own likes and desires.

I make a mental note to myself—find some real friends.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Queen of Hearts

“In this business, there is suicide. But me, I'll wait 'till this nightmare is over.”
― Oliver Oyanadel , Little Arson Annie: Short Stories

“All those dumb spooky movies like Friday the 13th, they all start in a house or a forest, or an abandoned cabin, or whatever, so you end up thinking you have to be scared of them. But you don’t. Not really. That whispering voice is never in the woods.

- S. E. Tolsen, Bunny”
― S. E. Tolsen

“All those dumb spooky movies like Friday the 13th, they all start in a house or a forest, or an abandoned cabin, or whatever, so you end up thinking you have to be scared of them. But you don’t. Not really. That whispering voice is never in the woods.”
― S. E. Tolsen

“I do not yet understand whether my life is worth that. Whether it is worth all that pain and suffering. Whether it is worth anything at all.”
― Hannah Clayton

“Life doesn't make any sense."
"It's not supposed to.”
― Hannah Clayton, Until the Shadows Lengthen

“The nasty taste of sweet revenge.
from The Hunters Game Vella”
― Andrea Allen

“The thicket rustles behind me and I am immediately thrown into fight or flight.”
― Philip Anthony Smith

“They are coming.”
― Philip Anthony Smith, Run For Your Life

“Manipulation is not a bad thing,
It’s just depends on who it’s uses,
The Devil or, the Angel?”
― Somnath Bhattacharjee, The Devil’s Love Story: The Devil's Revenge

“Even if you fall flat on your face, know that you're moving in the right direction.”
― Jim Manley, Dead Deal: A Myles Scott Assignment

“Justice always prevails. It is omnipotent – in a Godless world, justice might as well be our chosen religion.”
― Cate Cassena, Belladonna: The Art of Retribution: A Sad And Captivating Psychological Crime Thriller

“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