Quotes About Startle

Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.

It's like bitch-slapping E.T.

He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come.

Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick) Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)

I didn't know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn't know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don't give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)

Good grief, Fury, warn me if you're going to jump in here naked. (Bride)

Quotations Oh man, I hate that poofing shit. You scared me so bad, Ash, you made me eat this crappy cheese. (Nick in Night Embrace).

Holy crud! (Simone)

then my mother barges into me like an angry bull when I think I'm safe home.

Look out!" Julia cried. "he has a snake! And he'll use it!

With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops.

Startle not. Startle not, my beauty.

Rilriltok had apparently not expected to report to work and discover an enormous natural enemy next to its desk.

It was a woman--as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped pupils, reminiscent of an octopus.

Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…

Colonel Hugh Pickering - Well, I'm dashed!

Ma reggel álmomból hirtelen felriadva, könyökömmel úgy arcon és nyakon találtam ütni a feleségemet, hogy a fájdalomra felébredt, amit nagyon sajnáltam; aztán ismét elaludtam.

Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.

I know you saw something. Why else would you guys run? - Mr. Mercer

From time to time historians need to be shocked.

Sylvie was pretty, but she was prettiest when something had just startled her into feeling that the world had to be dealt with in some way, and then she undertook the most ordinary things with an arch, tense, tentative good will that made them seem difficult and remarkable, and she was delighted by even partial successes.

Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.

The question caught me off guard.