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Quotes About Unsettling

The sun had risen as usual, but nothing else about the day was the same as the day before.
~ Ji-li Jiang
It was the sound of something heavy striking something composed of flesh and bone. Hannah wasn't sure how she knew that, but she did. And her blood ran cold.
~ Joanne Fluke
expression an unsettling blend of fear and fury. Prothvar came in
~ Anne Bishop
How do I look?" "Rapeable
~ Anne Rampling
It was as though Banquo had turned host.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I'm not someone who feels settled.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
~ Olivia Cooke
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
I didn't sleep the night I finished 'Sister Hills.' It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn't have a clue. It's a very loaded subject, and I did not know what I had. I was interested in watching how choices unfold over time. It's a story that's raising questions.
~ Nathan Englander
The wild thing is that when I'm in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can't control anybody's destiny, so it's really unsettling.
~ David Bryan
For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.
~ Mike Flanagan
It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.
~ Ruth Ozeki
It was a stormy and dark night;
~ Alexandre Dumas
Black cats can do that to some people: They make them go all shivery and scared and remind them of dark.
~ Alice Hoffman
what?—the sky growing black, the wind moaning, the scrim of sand that blew across the empty lot forming itself into tooth and mouth and open jaw. "What are you afraid of?" More derisively than he'd meant it.
~ Alice McDermott
Cut your head off," whispered Never, eyes all scary-wide. "Pull your guts out and cook 'em," growled Jolly Yon. "Skin your face off and wear it as a mask," rumbled Brack. "Use your cock for a spoon," said Wonderful. They all thought about that for a moment.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The sky was the color of a migraine.
~ Joe Hill
If ghosts have a color, then they are the color of an August thunderstorm getting ready to break.
~ Joe Hill
After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.
~ Joe Meno
The face was bulbous and pink and hairless, utterly unremarkable, a Sunday school teacher's face, and that was the most unsettling part of it. Although he was probably my dad's age or older, the slack, anonymous complexion and dead eyes made it impossible to exactly pinpoint his age. He could have been a wax statue, a young actor made up to look old, or an amateurishly embalmed corpse.
~ Joe Schreiber
I don't want your patronage. I don't want your tea. I was quite happy. What do you want to unsettle me for?
~ E.M. Forster
A week ago, it all seemed so secure. So settled.
~ Anthony Doerr
There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
~ Anthony Horowitz