Best Gripping Quotes

59 Gripping quotes by 51 unique authors

GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defense of… — Roger E. Olson
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live. — Stephen Hawking
Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though… — Bret Easton Ellis
There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously… — Nikki Sixx
Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs… — Douglas Coupland
Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin… — Maggie Stiefvater
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader… — Lois Duncan
I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. — Kim Harrison
Cam held her closer. "Marry me, Amelia. You're what I want. You're my fate." One hand slid to the back of her head, gripping the… — Lisa Kleypas
Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the… — Anne Carson
You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it. — Beth Moore
A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your… — Deb Caletti
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it… — Sarah Dessen
At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it… — Khaled Hosseini
Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth.… — Haruki Murakami
How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone. — Sarah Dessen
I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up. — Christopher Paolini
Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. — Dave Pelzer
His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I… — Tammara Webber
If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping) — Pseudonymous Bosch
Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he… — Maggie Stiefvater
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time. — Jim Bouton

Who Wrote These Gripping Quotes

51 authors contributed a total of 59 Gripping Quotes, led by these top contributors: