Action Thriller Quotes

“I bade her ‘night night,’ and I was already waiting to meet her.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“When it’s over, all the equipment used is destroyed, even your clothing. Once it’s over every operator wipes his cranial hard drive clean of every moment of the mission, and you collectively go into blackout mode.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Then she tilted the can and dripped the gasoline throughout the old wooden structure. She didn’t have either time or strength to haul the bodies. In a better world, she would have given One a decent burial, and positioned Four in the driver’s seat of her fashionable vehicle, but alas, neither was possible.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“You’re making me think of something else now, but it’s related. I love watching little kids play. No matter where you look in the world, you’ll observe that kids are programmed to play. They learn through play. I think if we’re lucky we never forget how to play. And, I tell you, Gwinlyn, that’s one of the things I find most attractive about you. You like to play, and you like to play with me. Unfortunately, too many women I’ve met prefer to be grown up all the time. They take themselves too seriously.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Gigi’s actual name was Jolene Kraken. If her penetralia was exposed, even Gigi herself would be surprised. She was smart, aloof, indifferent to the opinions of others. Maybe she was amoral. Maybe because self-analysis wasn’t her strong suit. Neither did self-analysis interest her. Her goal as a young woman was to make serious money, enough to set her up for a life in which she could romp and stomp through the world doing exactly what she wished. And frequently what she wished was to deliver justice to people with bad intentions. She wanted to hurt people who hurt people.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“A psychiatrist would diagnose Jolene—and possibly every member of Cade Chase’s team—as having a benign form of psychosis. Benign, because she had not experienced a psychotic break. She was far short of being psychotic, but only because her brain and soul allowed her to manage her dissociative behavior well. The unconscious guides such people.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Willie approached them solo at first, smiling and speaking Spanish. He asked them how they were doing and whether there were any hot chicks inside. Then he said, “Here, let me help you.” With that, he delivered an uppercut so strong it felt as if the punch ended only when it struck roly-poly’s backbone. Rufus came up behind the second guy and administered a kidney punch that would have the little fellow peeing blood for a month.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“He was one of the lucky ones. He would follow operational orders, but he spoke out if he believed a senior officer was wrong in a moral sense. At a number of points his career might have been truncated because a senior considered him an impertinent malcontent.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Antifa was happy to have high school graduates turned out year after year who don’t know a fraction of the essential information that one hundred years ago every sixth-grader knew. The dumber the person, the more malleable and easier to convince they became.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“They made their toast, leaned back deep into their fine chairs, and in silence gazed at the gorgeous valley down below. It was almost Xanadu, and would have been if Cade were present.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“People in Washington love to use the word ‘systemic.’ You know, ‘We’re going to attack the ‘systemic’ causes’ of this or that.’ That’s supposed to convince us they’re thinking many layers more deeply than us. But where it counts, they strike out.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“There it was, burned into the text box, their code: “Sword of the Spirit.” They’d both attended weekly Bible study at the home of a lay person, and after the session one evening they talked about the expression that ultimately would become their code. They interpreted it to mean ‘the Word of God.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Blue light streamed out from her hands and pounded into the desert. An enormous mass of sand flew into the air, leaving behind a gaping hole. The officers closest to it fell back on the ground from the energy pushing up into the air as if the earth was exhaling a breath held for hundreds of years.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Sir, I cannot say I am ninja trained, but I have a brown belt in karate. That was while I was a fourteen-year-old. I have not kept myself in much of a practice, but I know a trick-or-two.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“The policemen had covered her thoroughly bruised, cut and naked body with a white cloth. She had bled a thousand cuts.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“He witnessed the love people throughout the industry had for their animals and for the sport itself. Someone once snapped a picture depicting his rictus of wonderment as he listened to a stable mate trace the lineage of a horse in a neighboring stall. Sires and dams, by name, for generations back. Wil could tell the lad wasn’t fabricating those names. We remember what we love.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Even given the ability of black clothing to trick the eye into believing the wearer is slimmer than he truly is, Mario still appeared to be a rolling tube of sausage with an immense bulge in the middle regions of his ill-tended anatomy. His skull was similarly immense, though not likely because it housed a large cranium. The only hair on his head was the oily curl of black hairs that circled the skull about the height of mid-ear. His eyebrows were ponderous, great furry awnings over the eyelids.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Sand rose into the air, spinning a maelstrom of protection against bullets. She looked up at him: his face contorted with concentration while the wind played with his dark hair. His arms tightened around her until she felt every contour of his body against hers. Her heart raced faster than the churning sand, and her breath was lost as if the vortex siphoned it.”
― Marie Montine, Arising Son: Part Two

“Call out in need. Be merciless. Kill to live!”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“Akshay is charming and stylish minus the oomph quotient. He is sexy and good looking, minus the killer instinct. He was good at teamwork and presentations, minus the fire in the belly kind of guy.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“I dislike this quiet. They are better equipped, and they know the terrain well. We are vulnerable. Only our bravado and our deep understanding of the criminal minds can save us.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“I feel a tingling sensation in my body, and I can almost feel her lips in my mind now. I think she likes me, but I need to be sure.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“He was a nifty dancer and his charm bowled her over.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“He looked downright handsome, young, and in shape. He saw some young women drooling over him, while they should have cried hoarsely, hurting their throat and eyes. India was changing by the day and girls were powerful.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“That’s the spirit, my friend. The game is not over till it is over. There is always a way back and we can always crawl back into the game, even at the last moment when we lose all.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“They will take only a minute to realize we are playing guerrilla warfare. We are man-marking while they are spraying bullets randomly.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“Your eyes have a depth, and they invite the person having conversation with you. Your eyes invite the other person to explore you.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“Last she knew, she was swooning at Akshay’s fluidic dance moves. Well, it was time to get involved. She knew Saurav was good for her, but she found the unpredictability of Akshay a bit of the X-factor.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“I do not wish to waste my youth over apprehensions and pretenses and I wish to take it on.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder

“Dear darling, I know you can release my pressure, by exercising your writ over my body’s various pressure points and pleasure points. You are creative in that department, and I totally adore you for that.”
― Kumar Kinshuk, Ritualistic Murder