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Mystery Fiction Quotes & Sayings

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Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person? — Laura Van Den Berg

When reading dies, the imagination soon follows. — Ronnie Ray Jenkins

What are we, Charlie's Angels? — Terri Blackstock

But a bond is a bond. And when you're young and haven't yet learned to live in your own solitude, even a destructive bond can seem better than none. — Elisabeth Elo

Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it? — Jennifer Walkup

Life's unpredictable patterns had a strange way of forming a connected web. — D.A. Pupa

Never give up no matter how tough the road seems,keep going and visualize yourself in the realm of what you are going to achieve. — Sharyan Alleyne

I am who I am and always shall be. — Laura Elizabeth

The smell of beer surrounded him in a cloud as if he'd been doused in Eau de Frat Boy cologne. — B.V. Lawson

Before man can explore outer space he should first learn to explore the Inner Space of his mind. — Merlin Fraser

The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine. — Genie Frisbee

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff. — Nancy B. Brewer

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience. — Dennis McFadden

I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars. — Walter Mosley

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. — Jodi Picoult

The world is only as small as your mind makes it. — Katie St. Claire

Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts and argyle socks. — Genie Frisbee

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. — Nancy B. Brewer

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries. — David McCullough

Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever. — Marcia Muller

Digital Age Cozy: Cozy mystery can be more than knitting grannies, cats, and cookbooks! — A.E.H. Veenman

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey. — Lee M. Sapp

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

Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end ! — Rajib Mukherjee

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. — John D. MacDonald

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent. — Mary Deal

The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place. — Nancy B. Brewer

I haven't always been a patient man ... but something tells me you'd be worth the wait. — Sam Langley

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.
They always put me in a bad mood. — Clinton Boomer

Every great day has a story and a song! — Faith Reese Martin

Blood doesn't speak of its owner. — Mita Jain

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived. — Agatha Christie

A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord. — Teresa Flavin

Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing! — Prentiss Grant

Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand — Celia Conrad

I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others. — Jennifer Walkup

But I can't force myself to remember my hidden past or purposefully unravel the mystery of my heart. Secrets are usually buried for a reason. — Siobhan Davis

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion — Catrina Burgess

Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice? — Tom Haikin

Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson — Jennifer A. Girardin

As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air. — Nancy B. Brewer

If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another. — Robert G. DeMers

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what."
~'Dr. Michael C. Anders, — Stephanie Osborn

Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected. — Humairaa Anseline

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

That was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity. — Lily Gardner

Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that. — Ed Lynskey

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

Sleeping Atlantis

Silent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within... — Muse

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort. — H.C. Deboard

The sliver of sun turned water crystals among the coal-colored clouds into the halo of a sundog. — B.V. Lawson

I would like to think of myself as an artist...excluding the part where he bows before an audience. There are no appreciations for killings. — Abhik Chatterjee

She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray — Shelley Gray

The morning drizzle tightened the District's notorious braided-knot commute into a noose of traffic. - Scott Drayco — B.V. Lawson

Dream It, Believe In It, And Achieve It. — Black Barbie

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre. — Don Roff

Women are interesting characters. Their very nature breeds mystery. — Susan Wingate

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about. — Julie Garwood

Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign. — B.V. Lawson

The Professor is coming... — M.K. Hopkins

Always listen to your dog. — Margaret Mizushima

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today. — Lee Child

Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible! — Garry E. Lewis

She was a tornado in a skirt. — B.V. Lawson

Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity! — Thomas K. Matthews

I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past. — Kellyn Roth

It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car. — Saba Kapur

Reality for me is what I create! — Manjiri Prabhu

I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio — Nancy B. Brewer

In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball. — Ed Lynskey

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&. — Jasper Fforde

This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?

From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets. — Robert Delgado

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended. — Mark Hodder

True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard. — Genie Frisbee

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

She was a cute as a washtub. — Raymond Chandler

The main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor

Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery. — Joseph Campbell

Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology. — Peter J. Tanous

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. — Sharon Sant

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room. — Gwenn Wright

The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters — R.J. Peters

Girls, we're fiction editors
we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget. — Stephanie Bond

Life is volatile. — Robert J. Pajer

The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord's name without taking her eyes off the book she was reading. — Andrew Cotto

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. — Patricia Cornwell

Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars. — B.V. Lawson

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. — Charles Baxter

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. — Anne Burack Sayre

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie. — Jeannie Walker

I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then. — Robert Stephen Parry

Even in death, her mother was winning. — Noorilhuda

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. — Diana Gabaldon

About Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them. — Lily Gardner

The M.E. dissected pieces of a corpse to tell a story, while Drayco tried to bring them back from the dead, jagged piece by jagged piece. — B.V. Lawson

What you believe determines the way you feel and act ... but it doesn't change the truth. — Steve Holt

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way. — Dorothy W. Cosey

I want to keep you, till the end of days. — J.D. Robb

He was one of the few men who didn't aspire to be alpha as long as he was in on the hunt. — B.V. Lawson