#Suspense

"Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River.Roarke: ChattahoocheeEve: What's the difference?Roarke: Quite a bit, I'd think."

"I love you, Katherine James. I love you with everything I am. You're the best thing that has ever happened to me. Remember that."Gabe Rossiter"

"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."

"She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation."

"Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it."

"Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face."--Nero SlyvenskiALL LIGHT WILL FALL"

"Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there."

"Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls.Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground.Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years?Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet.Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying."

"Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back.Eve: You're not going to hell.Roarke: Oh, and have you got some inside intel on that?Eve: You married a cop...you married me. I'm your goddamn salvation."

"The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy."

"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."