I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Spite, financial gain, thrills, emotional satisfaction. Murder always offered a reward. Why else would it remain so popular?” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
“This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Killing depends on circumstances, as you'd expect, whether it's a cold, planned murder, or a hot death in a fight, or inspired… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only… — Ingrid Copy Share Image
My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and… — Sirhan Sirhan Copy Share Image
“This morning Miss Marple lay thinking soberly and constructively of murder, and what, if her suspicions were correct, she could do about… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“What if the killer was here? He or she could be standing behind Laurel at this very moment. Laurel shivered again. She… — Tayler Marie Brooks Copy Share Image
We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the… — Garry Robbins Copy Share Image
“During the murder investigation, the cop said, I only have one question for you. Before she could ask it, I replied, Yes,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more… — Inge Genefke Copy Share Image
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I was a Jew talking about Goyim religion. If I had just stuck to Moses, everything would have been cool. But, copping… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind:… — Andrew Ford Copy Share Image
“Seven dead bodies and, so far, the only murder weapons are an inhaler, flowers and a fish.’ Simmons shook his head incredulously.… — Daniel Cole Copy Share Image
I just met this BELIEBER and I wish it was legal to MURDER them. Don't get me wrong, I still MURDERED him.… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“Books said nothing for a few minutes. Then, gazing out over the water, watching a sailboat heeled over, cutting across the bay,… — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
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