Quotes About Startle

Huh! sanoi Hemuli. -Hyi, miten minä pelästyin. Tiedättehän, ettei minua saa pelästyttää, minulta voi mennä sydän väärään kurkkuun.

Constance shrieked. The other children jumped. Milligan sighed.

Holy fucking Batman there's a panther in my bed.

SLEEPING DARTS!" Clay suddenly yelled, making everyone jump.

Holy smoking vipers,

I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me. I probably didn't jump twenty feet.

Someone was tapping on the window.

dropping spiders

frown and take a step back as if he'd realized that he had just stepped up to a grizzly

There's a snake in my butt!

I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

Holy moly. - Jasper

Oh, you mean instead of grabbing you?" Ben flinched as though he'd been slapped.

Cardan steps in front of me, pulling his cloak up. The metal needles glance off the fabric, falling to the floor. For a moment, we stare at each other, wide-eyed. He looks as surprised as I am that he protected me.

One time, a fan jumped on the back of our vehicle, and without noticing, we drove away. I was pretty frightened, actually.

was mildly surprised to see) and in the smallest

I leaped off the couch, cracking the drying wounds on both knees. I swallowed a cry. Was someone lurking in my room?

There's an intruder in my OoAh!

Then in a dazzling moment the black form of the spy-fly hurtled out of the tin and crashed hard into the monkey's face.

Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.' A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed. They spook easy, Hobbs said. Yes, well, people tend to do that when you come up behind them shouting, Good God. It's just a habit, I guess.

Every sound alarms.

I jerked the blankets right back off her, and there she was with her nightdress up around her neck. It was a shock to me that, her starting to look like a woman." [Jimmy about Molly]