Kim Harrison Quotes

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

I think suspense is a big thing.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me. Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me. It's Primrose Everdeen.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things happen to me. They do. They have to go ahead and happen. You watch – you wait… Things still happen here and something is waiting to happen to me. I can tell. Recently my life feels like a bloodcurdling joke. Recently my life has taken on *form* Something is waiting. I am waiting. Soon, it will stop waiting – any day now. Awful things can happen any time. This is the awful thing.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Fear is excitement without breath.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.