Thriller Novel Quotes

“Paul Remmich is going to do something special before moving to Cuba. He will have to sign a legal agreement protecting him to work for Iraq as an independent diplomat.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“Mama had kept me ignorant, and my father kept what didn’t belong to him. One’s parents may have flaws, but one didn’t have to inherit them.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

“One’s child is the great treasure one will ever admire, but never own. You are the part of me that transcends time and carries my love with it.”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

“This could be my Everest, man—no, no, even better. Hacking a military AI? Wow, man, that’s like, that’s like going to Mars, dude, yeah, like Mars!”
― Guy Morris, Swarm

“It was a cooler morning than usual, but it was a welcomed difference. The many childhood summers she had spent on the French Riviera were now a simple memory, her younger adult years in the Caribbean now packed away into the past. The cooler New England temperatures helped to mitigate the heat of her present concerns.”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“She told herself, finally, that she must face it or die . . . But this was just a whisper in the self, that flutter within which starts as a tiny plea and fights to grow in strength and resonance. So, she stood by it and fought for it, but not before her life and her love took the losses redemption almost always exacts from the redeemed.”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“Valdivia had to hold back the familiar mixture of sadness, rage, and revulsion to keep herself from shouting at the world in front of her. Of course, she had seen bad things before. But now, violence against women was a particular anguish, and the pursuit of their killers had become a personal mission.”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“Truth never sells; only lies.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“You seem to be running a relay race all by yourself and
keeping the baton while your team member
is waiting for you to pass it. You don’t need to go it
alone; neither do you need to prove yourself to anyone.
Including your father.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“Why are people so evil to each other? We need to spread good in the
world, not evil.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“A prison cell of silver and silk is still a prison, isolating and solitary.”
― Guy Morris, Swarm

“Ava had to get Maxime’s location soon so she could get out of there. She’d seen enough of this place and its people that she never wanted to come back. She texted the judge: Do you have the information? I need it. I have to leave here soon.”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“Daily, she went over the story, ramming it through the turnstile in her mind, making sure she hadn’t missed anything major. She did not want to be caught off guard if she was ever questioned. She had to have thought of everything. And what of those things she could not anticipate? She’d simply answer, “I don’t know. I have no knowledge of that. Someone else might be able to tell you.”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“Maybe a stranger who listens is the best audience. People close to you are judgmental.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“He’s the kind to fear most. One moment they’re
cool, the next they’re in a hot fury—aggression that
lurks like a crouching tiger ready to strike.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“This is not an enemy issue, it’s a big-gun-small-dick issue.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“Without boundaries and values, any choice becomes self-serving and destructive.”
― Guy Morris, Swarm

“To hear an artificial intelligence, interpret ancient scriptures with greater clarity than most pastors has her spooked like a Stephen King horror movie that gets inside your head.”
― Guy Morris, Swarm

“She wasn’t a collector of facts about people, this birthday, that anniversary. She cared more about the content of a person.”
― Catherine McKenzie, I'll Never Tell

“Ava was almost twenty-six, on her own, in a decent and mostly stable relationship, eternally grateful to be away from Jeffrey Hoffman’s clutches. Hoffman had held her captive for just over four years until she escaped that life at eighteen. In the first few years of her escape, she’d had as much therapy as she could tolerate, preferring to get on with things. ”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“Sitting in the cruiser, staring through this memory, she wondered why it was so hard for a headstrong woman in this world, in this country—why she had to be so alone to be who she was, and not just Valdivia herself, but every woman who is a lone wolf on the slick, icy tundra. ”
― Jonathan Epps, Until Morning Comes

“I remember what it was like to express love and to show care toward others. I remember how liberating it felt to put others before myself. Despite how fresh on my mind those great feelings of sharing and caring for others were, though, I couldn't bring myself to reunite with them.”
― Alex Cage, Carolina Dance: A Fast-Paced Orlando Black Action Thriller (Book 1)

“That girl wasn’t who she wanted to. be anymore, but sometimes you don’t get to choose who you are.”
― Catherine McKenzie, I'll Never Tell

“Danika does not scream. She does not cry. She does not even move. She just kneels there on the rocky forest floor, her hands resting on the top of her belly, staring at the grotesque thing that had only a short time before been the father of the child growing inside her.”
― J.H. Smithson, Deadman

“A true man-eater. To Ben, there are no words more beautiful in any language.”
― J.H. Smithson, Deadman

“When he looks back up, the tiger is still grinning at him, purring. Their stares meet. Bronson sees himself in the cat’s eyes, floating inside the yellow depths. For just a moment, as he gazes at his reflection, he feels as if his soul is being sucked up. Pulled into the animal. Trapped inside the black abyss of the tiger. Imprisoned there forever. It would be a punishment befitting a man whose only real purpose in life was to bring death to this species, and countless others like it.”
― J.H. Smithson, Deadman

“I tried to write this story with a fast pace, tons of action and emotional drama, while sprinkling in engineering and economic facts here and there to help educate you, the reader, of the inner-workings of what it would actually take to roll out a real-life self-driving network.”
― J. Luke Bennecke

“Jake designed the self-driving network to save lives, but some bastard had gone and weaponized the damn thing.”
― J. Luke Bennecke, Civil Terror: Gridlock

“Mass murder can be complicated. But profitable.”
― J. Luke Bennecke, Waterborne

“Engineers - making the world a better, safer, happier place.”
― J. Luke Bennecke, Waterborne