95 Quotes About Romantic Thriller

Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. For a moment, he knew that gaze intimately, remembering it from a time long gone. The ache of a shattered belief once known. He knew that feeling. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I can be badass and still like pedicures." - Liz Harper, Secret Need Satin Russell

My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he's saying. He's my person. He's my home. Jennifer Walkup

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out? Jennifer Walkup

The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered. Jennifer Walkup

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

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

And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I’ll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened. Jennifer Walkup

Is it weird that I think it's hot when you boss me around?" Her gaze snapped up to his, her blue eyes darkening with unmistakable hunger.... " I can take bossing you around to a whole other level if you'd like, " she murmured. Katie Reus

Is this seat taken?" The deep, gravelly voice jolted Noelle from her blood-thirsty thoughts. When she laid eyes on the man it belonged to her breath caught in her throat. She blinked, wondering if maybe she'd dreamed him, but then he flashed her a captivating grin and she realized that he must be real - her mind wasn't capable of conjuring up a smile this heart-stoppingly gorgeous. A pair of vivid blue eyes watched her expectantly as she searched for her voice. " There are lots of other seats available, " she finally replied, gesturing to the deserted tables all around them. He shrugged. "I don't want to sit anywhere but here." She moistened her suddenly dry lips. "Why?" "Because none of those other seats are across from you, " he said simply. . Elle Kennedy

Jena took a seat on the sofa, and Cole found himself with another dilemma. Should he sit next to her or take the other chair? Such a decision shouldn’t feel momentous, but it did. It felt as momentous as a choice between the past and the future. It felt like a choice between friendship and maybe more than friendship. He sat next to her on the sofa. Susannah Sandlin

I hate phones, " he grumbled into her neck. "Seriously, I wanna go back in time and murder Alexander Graham Bell." He sat up with a groan. "Or was it Edison who invented the phone? I can never remember." She had to laugh. "I'm pretty sure it was Bell. Elle Kennedy

Have you lost your damn mind? Running like that?” He spoke in Spanish. “You’re pushing me over the edge, Antonio.” She pitched her voice so low he could barely hear. “Bringing me to this place, hanging the possibility of my father out in front of me. You are driving me to do crazy things.”“ Kiss me, ” he whispered into her ear.“ Now you’ve lost your mind. Linda Bond

He brushed his lips over hers, and this time his kiss was a bit more heated than the last. She clutched onto him, deepening it until he pulled back. He groaned, simmering heat in his gaze. "Let's get you in the bath before I lose my head." " Maybe after the bath you can lose it. Katie Reus

Shiloh had never seen a man who was a hunter. But she saw one now. There was an intense feeling around Roan, raw and untamed, as he studied her, his nostrils flaring to catch her scent. He ruthlessly dug into her opening eyes, reading her, trying to understand where she was at within herself and what she wanted from him. “ This is your call, ” he said, his voice low and guttural. Lindsay McKenna

Let’s get one thing clear between us, Shiloh. I would never laugh at you. I might tease the dickens out of you, but I would never, ever make fun of you. That’s not who I am. I don’t believe in humiliating another person. It’s not in my DNA. Lindsay McKenna

What will your family think, me showing up on their doorstep with my suitcase in hand?"" I'll carry your suitcase, " he said. B.J. Daniels

I feel like I'm twenty again. Elizabeth HortonNewton

What anger wants, it buys at the price of soul. Dana Marton

Flash fire." She turned her head as far as she could, trying to look at him. "I don't know what that means." He shifted on the branch. "First time I was on a submarine, we had a flash fire. It's a combustion explosion. A flammable mist builds up in the air, then suddenly, bam. Think super high temperatures and a rapidly moving flame front. It kills by asphyxiation. Burns up all the available oxygen. It's devastating. Dana Marton

She growled. He gave her a considering look. "That's almost sexy. Dana Marton

I can't find the words." She stared daggers at him. " Don't hurt yourself trying. Dana Marton

You're not horribly terrible." He shook his head at her. "You say the nicest things." He held her gaze for a moment. "You're not trying to get into my pants, are you? Dana Marton

- He's young, good-looking and new in town. And He's got the local bullies in his sights. There's no justice here, but justice is coming... N O JUSTICE, the addictive new adult thriller that everyone is talking about J.K. Ellem

I’m quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death. Brynn Kelly

The sun glowed behind the monotonous, gray January sky, a tease of light through the heavy hazy. Noah gazed out the window. He hated when the sun shined against the overcast sky creating a white, blinding glare while the ball of yellow remained hidden, a tantalizing possibility without a promise. Maybe it would poke through; maybe it wouldn't. That type of sun was a capricious as a woman. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Looking at that pain in her eyes, he felt a closeness with her that he had never experienced before. Like they shared something powerful and unspoken, something so deep and devastating, it bonded them together. He knew then, that if she didn't forgive him, he would never survive. He was nothing without her. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Gunfire cracked around them. “ Just warning shots, ” he yelled. “ How do you know?” “ We’re not dead. Brynn Kelly

As he started making a pot of coffee he glanced out his kitchen window and into his neighbor’s window and froze. He had the perfect view of his new neighbor. She was beautiful. Scratch that. The word didn’t even come close to describing her. She didn’t seem very tall, though it was hard to measure. Her dark wavy hair cascaded down over her shoulders, reaching just below her breasts. Very full breasts. Definitely enough to fill his palms. And the tight tank top she was wearing left very little to the imagination. It was obvious she’d just woken up as she rubbed a hand over her face and reached for the coffee pot. Look away, he ordered himself. But he was rooted to the spot. . Katie Reus

I’ve been waiting half an hour for you to wake up.” His voice was uneven and raspy. “Is that right?” she murmured. Katie Reus

Grant pressed his back against the outside wall of the turquoise and white two-story home he and a team of Miami PD officers were about to storm. On the surface the place fit in perfectly into the upper middle class neighborhood. On the inside, however, it was a fully functioning cocaine lab. Katie Reus

Is that right?” she murmured. Katie Reus

She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived. No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Despite his soft speech, he stared at her as he’d like to eat her whole. Damn her traitorous body if that thought wasn’t such a bad one…. This could not be happening. She was on the run from a maniac and her hormones were going haywire. Clearly, she had issues. Katie Reus

Caleb shifted uncomfortably as he closed the door behind him. For a moment, he’d thought she’d been naked under the sheet. But, it had been a nude-colored type of top. Didn’t seem to matter, the sight had kicked his fantasies into overdrive. She tried to hide herself, but the nightlight next to her bed cast a soft amber glow around her shining right through the thin sheet, illuminating her small pert breasts perfectly even through the top…. He couldn’t live under the same roof as her and not go insane. He would make an announcement tomorrow. She was off-limits. Katie Reus

When she entered the dining room, she tried to ignore Caleb’s gaze on her. He wasn’t outwardly leering, but she could feel the intensity coming from his direction as if he was sending heat-seeking missiles her way. She knew he wanted her. She might not have much experience with men, but she knew when one was interested and Caleb Ryder was. Katie Reus

He needed to taste her like he needed his next breath. Katie Reus

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary. Meryl Sawyer

She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness. Jacqueline Simon Gunn

How ‘bout you, Jena?” He leaned closer, speaking in an exaggerated whisper. “We could go somewhere private. I know you probably got some scars from being shot, but you can’t see a scar in the dark, right?” The dickwad was offering her a pity fuck in a darkened room? Susannah Sandlin

Jena Sinclair had taught him a couple of things about himself in the past few minutes that he didn’t want to know. First, sometime in the past five years, a deep fatigue had wrapped itself around him — not the fatigue that could be slept off with a soft bed and a warm blanket, but the fatigue caused by a tightened harness that restricted. That promised no end to long days and longer nights. A harness of his own making. Cole had realized another surprising thing too. Very surprising for the man who needed nothing and no one. He was lonely. . Susannah Sandlin

He’d danced around that story about why he’d moved to Terrebonne more smoothly than an Olympic skater on ice. Susannah Sandlin

Jena shook her head. “Paul needs a life.” “ Paul needs a woman, ” Ceelie said. Susannah Sandlin

Everybody has scars; some are more visible than others, that’s all. But anyone without a scar is someone I don’t want to know because it’s someone who doesn’t feel things deeply. You have to understand loss to recognize a gift when you see it.” He leaned over and kissed her again. “You are my gift. I want to be yours, if you’ll let me. Susannah Sandlin

She sashayed into the kitchen like she lived there, and grabbed two glasses from the counter, rinsed them in the sink, all very domestic. His eyes strayed to her breasts. “You came to do dishes?” “ I came to come.” She winked, smiling from ear to ear. “ Gotta appreciate a straight-talking woman. Dana Marton

In the middle of the house stood the largest, scariest man she’d ever seen. Senhor Finch had been sunshine, but this foreigner was a night storm. He seemed to fill the house like a dark cloud. Too big, too strong, his gaze too sharp on her. And as she turned to flee, he thundered, “Stop! ” And the next second, the man had her arm in his grip. Dana Marton

When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut. Someone who flies in a spaceship to the moon, ” he explained, in case she didn’t know the word. She thought about that for a moment. “But you didn’t go.” “ Turns out I have dyslexia. It’s something in your brain that makes it hard to learn. Mine is not bad, just enough so I couldn’t pass the test.” “ I’m glad you didn’t go to the moon, ” she said. “I think it’s better that you came here. Dana Marton

The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys. The Rio Negro had given him Daniela. One river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least. Dana Marton

Quickly, Ian learned the danger of holding her. Once he allowed his arm around her, letting her go was nearly impossible. Dana Marton

She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn’t live without his heart. Dana Marton

As he waited for her, he braced himself for the sight of her, ready to turn out the light as soon as she reached her bed. But when Daniela came in, she wasn’t wearing her nightgown. She returned from the bathroom in a bath towel. And then she locked the door behind her and dropped the towel. Drops of water glistened on her naked skin as if she’d been painted with diamonds. “ Christ, ” he breathed. . Dana Marton

I love you more than piranhas love chicken wings. Dana Marton

I think I've proved that I'm not to be trusted, " he said." Then why do I feel safer now that I have in my entire life?"" Because you're just as screwed up as me. Brynn Kelly

I'm not going anywhere... Katie Reus

I'll shower, then we can go. I smell like a zombie." Hell, if the undead looked like that, bring on the zombie apocalypse. Brynn Kelly

Since Paul wasn’t a big conversationalist–he was the anti- Mac, in other words, and today had been the longest she’d ever heard him speak in consecutive sentences– Jena watched the scenery for a while. Then she decided to study the inside of Paul’s truck to see what she could learn about him. Technically, it was exactly like hers and Gentry’s. It had a black exterior with a blue light bar across the top and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division logo on the doors. It was tech heavy on the front dash, just like theirs, with LDWF, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office, and Louisiana State Police Troop C radios, a laptop, a GPS unit, and a weather unit. In her truck and in Gentry’s, the cords and wires were a colorful tangle of plastic and metal, usually with extra plugs dangling around like vines. Paul’s cords were all black, and he had them woven in pairs and tucked underneath the dash, where they neatly disappeared. She leaned over to see how he’d achieved such a thing, and noticed identical zip ties holding them in place.“ Sinclair, I hate to ask, but what are you doing?” He sounded more bemused than annoyed, so she said, “I’m psychoanalyzing you based on the interior of your truck.” He almost ran off the road. “Why?”“Your scintillating conversation was putting me to sleep.” His dark brows knit together but he seemed to have no answer to that. She turned around in her seat, as much as the seat belt allowed, and continued her study. Paul had a 12-gauge shotgun and a .223 carbine mounted right behind the driver’s seat, same as in her own truck. The mounts had hidden release buttons so the agents could get the guns out one-handed and quickly. But where her truck had a catch-all supply of stuff, from paper towels to zip ties to evidence bags to fast-food wrappers thrown in the back, Paul’s backseat was empty but for a zippered storage container normal people used for shoes. Each space held different things, all neatly arranged. Jena spotted evidence bags in one. Zip ties in another. Notebooks. Citation books. Paperwork. A spare uniform hung over one window, with a dry-cleaner’s tag dangling from the shirt’s top button. Good Lord. She turned back around.“ What did you learn?” Paul finally asked.“ You’re an obsessive-compulsive neat freak, ” she said. “Accent on freak. Susannah Sandlin

How do I say 'kiss me' in French?" she whispered." Embrasse moi." Oh yes, even that sounded better in French. Brynn Kelly

Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn't? That was a whole other story. Brynn Kelly

I should have tried getting blown up months ago if that's what it takes to get you to be nice to me. Katie Reus

He paused and looked up at her with the gleam of a predator in his gaze. She shivered at the intensity, more than happy to be his prey. Katie Reus

This thing I feel for you... I've never felt like this about anyone, Tegan. Katie Reus

She glanced at her watch. He'd been massaging his legs for half an hour. "I think that's enough, " she said firmly. "Don't you want to go back to bed?" He straightened up in the wheelchair and his teeth flashed in a grin. "Baby, I'm so tired of that bed, the only way you could get me back in it would be if you crawled in there with me. Linda Howard

She whimpered softly into his mouth. "We can't, " she cried, desperation and desire tearing her apart. " The hell we can't, " he rasped, taking her hand and moving it down his body to where his flesh strained at the fabric of his pants. Her fingers jerked at the contact: then a spasm of pain crossed her pale face, and her hand lingered involuntarily, exploring the dimensions of his arousal. He caught his breath. "Jay, baby, don't' stop me now! . Linda Howard

His head jerked up. For another moment he was motionless. Her lips were parted slightly, trembling. Her eyes looked heavy. Her nipples were hard little circles plainly visible though the wet dress, her arms limp at her sides as she let him look. He shuddered, and his control snapped. She couldn't move. He walked toward her without taking his gaze from her, without seeing or hearing anything else, a primal male animal intent on mating. He was breathing hard and deep, his nostrils flaring. Water dripped off him as he moved. She waited, shaking with need and fear, because he was out of control and she knew it. It was an exhilarating terror, freezing her but at the same filling her with an anticipation so acute she was almost in pain. Then his hands were on her, and she moaned aloud from the sudden release of tension. She didn't have time to respond. She had expected to be swept up in his arms and carried to bed, but he had gone far beyond paying attention to niceties. Nothing mattered to him but to have her, right then. . Linda Howard

Her lips parted slightly in a smile so female it took his breath away, and her deep blue eyes beckoned him, dared him. Once again her hips lifted. "What are you waiting for?" she breathed. " For you, " he answered, and even as he lost himself in the mindless ecstasy of making love to her, the truth of that remained. He'd waited for her forever. Linda Howard

Sudden, hell. I've been hard for two months. Linda Howard

I don't want you to think about anyone in your past. No now, not ever again. You deserved a hell of a lot more than any of those bastards gave you." " If it helps, " she said with a faint smile, "I killed most of them. Elle Kennedy

She shook her head and said, " If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that shitty things happen. You can't always stop them. They just happen. And yeah, you can let them destroy you, but what's the point? Might as well learn to deal with all those shitty things and move on." " Is that what you did?" " Yes." She paused. "And you will too. You just have to accept your loss and try your best to live out the rest of your life without letting the loss destroy you." " Easier said than done, " he muttered. She laughed. "Who said life was easy?. Elle Kennedy

She rubbed her lips over him, then lifted her head to meet his eyes. "Tell me what you like." " Everything, " he choked out. "I like everything you're doing." " Tell me, " she insisted.... Although it nearly killed him to say it, he mumbled, "Start slow. Make me beg for it. Elle Kennedy

She glanced at the bathroom door once more, her cheeks growing warm as the glass door slid open and Kane emerged from the steamy shower stall. Naked. She swallowed, unable to tear her eyes away from his nude, dripping-wet body. He had the kind of rock-hard physique that would make other women drool. His broad chest tapered to a trim waist, and his legs were thick and dusted with golden hair. He was lean, not bulky, with perfectly sculpted muscles that looked like they'd been carved out of marble. He was hard. Everywhere. "I'm afraid it's too late for you to join me in the shower, " he said in a silky voice. "Though we could still make good use of the bed. . Elle Kennedy

Kane..." she hesitated. "I lied to you last night." His green eyes searched her face. "What did you lie about?" " When I said... when I said I didn't want to kiss you again." Her breath came out in an unsteady puff. "I lied. Elle Kennedy

Kane couldn't remember the last time he'd had a real conversation with a female. His chats with women consisted of sentences like "Do you like that, babe?" or "Roll over, I want to screw you from behind. Elle Kennedy

He'd made a decision today that he wasn't letting her push him out of his life again. Katie Reus

There's only one woman I want. Katie Reus

His voice still had the rasp of desire as he asked, "If I disappear, will you come and find me? Dana Marton

She sighed. "You're not without fault, but you're not rotten. Although you're very disorderly. You're pigheaded, cocky beyond bearing, arrogant." She stopped when she realized she'd just said the same thing three times over. "You have a troubling obsession with vigilante justice." She cleared her throat. "Well, I'm sure there are things you don't like about me." " You're not naked, and you're not under me." His voice was thick with passion. Dana Marton

If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um.. Navy SEALS. He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion. Dana Marton

I hope we'll be friends." His grin was pure sin.... She stuck with the truth. "I hope we won't be enemies. Dana Marton

If you try to sleep on the floor I'll just get down there with you. Which will make you feel guilty and then you'll end up in the bed anyway. So just give in now and save yourself -- and me -- a headache. Katie Reus

He didn't want to take advantage of her? Fine, she'd take advantage of him. Katie Reus

Everything is falling into place perfectly. We have four dirty DEA agents working with a terrorist group and killing Americans on American soil. The headlines are going to write themselves and we're going to get our candidate into the White House. When that happens, we'll get the war we want. The war we can win. Katie Reus

Her grandmother used to say there were men the devil put on earth to test good women. Clara was tempted to ask the guy whether he'd just zip-lined in from hell. " Go away, " she said instead. His smile was worth a thousand words, most of them dirty. His voice dipped. "How can I, when your eyes begged me to come over? Dana Marton

He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins. Dana Marton

She wasn't entirely sure if she was being rescued or kidnapped. Dana Marton

Something dropped on her shoulder, but even as she screamed, her heart stopping midbeat, the next oncoming branch swept the tarantula away. Aww! Ick! She manically brushed her shoulder with her free hand, every inch of her covered in goose bumps. " When running from people who're trying to kill you, " Walker advised as he kept dragging her, "it's better to stay quiet. Generally speaking. Dana Marton

Looking at Athena now, he couldn't believe he'd been dumb enough to walk away from her. When he'd realized how innocent she was it had freaked him out, to put it mildly. Had made him feel guilty for the dirty things he'd said to her, wanted to do to her. With her --- Katie Reus

He nipped her bottom lip teasingly, his breath warm against her face, his spicy scent a total aphrodisiac. As he kissed a hot path along her jawline, she raked her fingers down his back. Whatever he had in mind, she was game. Katie Reus

How old are you exactly?" The corner of his mouth curved up, the grin so ridiculously sexy it made butterflies take flight in her stomach. "Thirty-two." "Hmm, eight year difference. Not exactly robbing the cradle, but I think I might have to rethink this whole thing between us." She kept her voice light, teasing. He snorted and pinched her butt, making her yelp. "Think all you want, I'm not going anywhere. . Katie Reus

Oh my God, you're such a guy! " " I'm glad you noticed." The glint in his dark eyes was purely wicked. Katie Reus