#thriller

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station. ↗

— R.W. Rivers

#crime-fiction #crime-thriller #gold #love #mystery-thriller

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#heard #i #psychological #studios #thrillers

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero. ↗

— Danny Strong

#action #action hero #ahead #being #brilliance

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.) ↗

— Stephen B. Pearl

#medical #political #science-fiction #thriller #life

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important. ↗

— Alan Sakowitz

#character #community #family #financial-thriller #inspirational

Men like us believe we are gods... ↗

— Claudette Walker

#men

But sometimes i have to ask myself this question. its true that to us his imaginings are nothing but the inventions of a busy mind. But to him, there simply is no other reality. Further more, he is happy there, so why, I ask myself, why in the name of healing him must we drag him painfully into the world of our own reality?' - Doctor's Memo ↗

— Sadamu Yamashita

#psychological-thriller #business

Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you. ↗

— P.I. Barrington

#cult #future-imperfect-trilogy #futuristic #las-vegas #romantic-suspense

I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn’t know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it’s a good name and it means ‘spirit,’ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong.” She laughs, rough as a cough. “The queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile. ↗

— Timothy Hallinan

#edgar-award #poke-rafferty #thriller #death

You will never know everything. Knowledge unfolds as we move forward. Sitting back and waiting to know everything before we do anything is a waste of life. ~ I Am Another You ↗

— Priya Kumar

#spiritual #thriller #inspirational