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Quotes About Startle

Astonish me in the morning!
~ Tyrone Guthrie
And on the morning of July 18, an eight-year-old girl living in Bath chose to awaken her aunt, a devout believer in the prophecy, by screaming "Aunt, Aunt, the World's at an end!" The words so startled the poor woman that she fell into a coma, and remained insensate throughout the following day.
~ William K. Klingaman
Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.
~ William Landay
Have a heartattack!
~ David Lubar
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.
~ Madeline Amy Sweeney
"Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
Oh God, it's her, run!
~ Simon R. Green
Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with.
~ Jill Shalvis
Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there?
~ Kat Falls, Rip Tide
She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Shut the front door!" Jenna exclaimed.Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. "The door is shut?
~ Laura Kreitzer, Keepers
Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself.
~ Jason Arnopp
IT HAPPENED SO QUICKLY, so unexpectedly, that Little Jon's cry was almost instantly cut short as the blackness closed over him.
~ Alexander Key
I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.
~ Sergio Aragones
That was a screaming meemie
~ Rex Hudler
window. All the ruckus, of course, woke up everyone in the house. Lilly's room was right up there. She
~ Richard Laymon
Xander duckte sich instinktiv, als er das schneidende Geräusch hörte. Seine Augen folgten der Flugbahn des abgehackten Kopfes, der durch den Raum segelte. Kopf hoch, murmelte Xander.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Leo had a weird memory of a missile hurtling towards him and screaming like a little girl … what the heck had that been about?
~ Rick Riordan
Whoa ,zombie dude
~ Rick Riordan
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, Hippo! Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane
~ Rick Riordan
Whasthat! Um ... those are the toilets.
~ Rick Riordan
Holy unanticipated occurrences!
~ Kate DiCamillo
It's not even that I bump into things. It's more that things leap out of nowhere and bump into me
~ Kate DiCamillo
the gun went off, some dogs howled and
~ Kate Klimo