Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.
With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey.
Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.
I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.
I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.
Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.
I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.
I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!
My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.
Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller coaster of a ride. The depth of the novel was evidenced by the constantly shifting meaning of the title itself. In fact, the entire work never changes its meaning, but somehow, seamlessly, simply means more. This is a rare and memorable piece of work.