Mystery Novels Quotes
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Mystery Novels Quotes & Sayings
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If I'm going down, I'm going down with lipstick on.
— Beth Yarnall
Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
You are the master of your emotions and you and only you have the power to control them external and internal.
— Sharyan Alleyne
The smell of beer surrounded him in a cloud as if he'd been doused in Eau de Frat Boy cologne.
— B.V. Lawson
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
The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.
— Grace Willows
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
— Raymond Chandler
![Mystery Novels Quotes By Dorothy Parker: [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/mystery-novels-quotes-by-dorothy-parker-722259.jpg "Mystery Novels Quotes By Dorothy Parker: [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled")
[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.
— Dorothy Parker
A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.
— Sara Paretsky
Blood doesn't speak of its owner.
— Mita Jain
Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course,' he says. — Beatrice Hitchman
Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?
— Tom Haikin
I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination.D'Molay the Freeman Tracker — M. Scott Verne
He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight.
— B.V. Lawson
He had a bushy unibrow that could house a family of quail.
— Lida Sideris
We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it.
— Robert Magarian
Regretfully, he remained an alluring mystery, with fascinating lines and details she could not help but seek to examine further and memorize.
— Lily Blackwood
The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
— Jesse Kellerman
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
— Lauren Willig
A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
— Steven J. Daniels
Three guys and a girl were leaning against a black raised pickup ... I had to do a double take as this group was nothing like I had ever seen before.
— Meredith T. Taylor
Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.
— B.V. Lawson
She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.
— Lida Sideris
The reader is the final arbiter.
— Sam Reaves
People bring you books, cheap paperbacks, when you're in the hospital: this was how I found out that I hate mystery novels.
— John Darnielle
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.
— Rodman Philbrick
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.
— Sebastian Faulks
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
— Natalie Goldberg
The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.
— Mickey Wyte
Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future.
— Sean Best
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
He was a Super Politician, defender of untruths, injustice and the American power-play.
— B.V. Lawson
She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
He's an odd duckbut he's a good kid, with a good heart. — Lisa Scottoline
We're Killers On The Keyboard
— Cyndi Williams Barnier
She was a tornado in a skirt.
— B.V. Lawson
Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars.
— B.V. Lawson
From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.
— Agatha Christie
I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.
— Lida Sideris
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.
— Jimenez Lai
The sliver of sun turned water crystals among the coal-colored clouds into the halo of a sundog.
— B.V. Lawson
The morning drizzle tightened the District's notorious braided-knot commute into a noose of traffic. - Scott Drayco
— B.V. Lawson
Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.
— B.V. Lawson
The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.
— Jules Haigler
