#thriller

Hatred could not be the basis of her resolution to fight. It provided no access to her own qi, her vital spirit. That was the deepest truth she knew about fighting. It’s what she learned from her father and Sensei: fight from the peaceful place inside, from her father’s place. ↗

— Jacques Antoine

#martial-arts #wuxia #art

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers. ↗

— John McTiernan

#enormous #filmmakers #fun #thrillers

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me. ↗

— John McTiernan

#action movies #any #around #before #couple

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be. ↗

— John McTiernan

#camera #narrator #thriller

I’m sorry about this,' she said to the dead woman, 'but I’m gonna need your clothes. ↗

— Jacques Antoine

#death #espionage-thriller #martial-arts #wuxia #art

As he was about to press the button to shut the doors, a young woman stepped in. She had that sort of beauty that deserved to be prosecuted for appearing without notice. Professor Khupe was confident that an appropriate law existed for such a purpose. However, no prosecutor could remain undistracted for long enough to find the said law in the criminal code. The young lady would enjoy a life of impunity. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love-story #paranormal-romance #thriller #death

Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in "The Omniconstant ↗

— Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

#death #fiction #masonry #masons #nano-robotics

A little politeness might smooth the way ahead. Knowing it was his turn to be dispatched, the best he could hope for was as swift a death as the one Massetti had so thanklessly received. ↗

— Victoria Lamb

#death #goodluck #the-queen-s-secret #thriller #death

Seconds seem like a life time when the life you lived is slowly drained out of you by those who care not what you felt, hoped, or dreamed. When the darkness comes it is all consuming, there is no light and there is no pain. It is the never ending loss of hope that now consumes me as I die in his arms. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#walking-in-the-shadows #ya-romance #ya-thriller #dreams