“ The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. Jim Thompson
“ The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not. Melanie Crowder
“ It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky… Cornell Woolrich
“ It was a time for warm embraces, for smiles, for toasts and reconciliations, for renewing old friendships and making new ones, for laughter and kisses.It was a good time, a golden autumn, a time of pe… George R.R. Martin
“ Nicasia said that as mortal power grows, land and sea ought to be united. And that they would be, either in the way she hoped or the way I should fear.Ominous, I say.It seems I have a singular taste f… Holly Black
“ An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave. Sara Sheridan
“ Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face. Ian Fleming
“ There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous.(New York Blues) Cornell Woolrich
“ It is a rather remarkable trick of the mind that there can be a wicked little voice that whispers in your ear that you’ve done it before and nothing happened, so why not do it again? Everything will b… F.D. Lee
“ «Perhonen is not here anymore,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whispers. Hannu Rajaniemi
“ He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting. Dexter Palmer
“ He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger. Derek Landy
“ When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for… Gary D. Schmidt
“ The smell of tobacco usually reminded Mirabelle of being a child – coming downstairs in the morning when the dinner party her parents had hosted the night before was cleared away, but the scent of cig… Sara Sheridan
“ There was something unbearable about the damp, dark earth closing over a coffin and the still, empty flesh that was inside. She had attended a hundred funerals, but when you really loved someone there… Sara Sheridan
“ The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid. Sara Sheridan
