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Quotes About Shock

I think I just became psychic, he said. Holy crap.
~ Rachel Caine
And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop.
~ Rachel Caine
As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.
~ Rachel Caine
What's dropped your heart into your shoes?
~ Dean Koontz
WHEN A FIERCE-LOOKING GUY COMES OUT of a mirror as though it's a doorway, and when he grabs for you and snags your shirt with his fingertips, you could be excused for wetting your pants or for losing total control of your sphincter, so
~ Dean Koontz
The guy was lying on his back, mostly in shadow, with only the lower half of his body revealed in the dirty-red light, and at first Ken and Teel didn't realize what a horror they'd stumbled across. But when he knelt beside the corpse, Ken was shocked to see that the man's gut had been
~ Dean Koontz
left hand on the handrail, from step to ascending step, she carries the burden of her flesh and also her humiliation, which is by far the heavier weight. She has been shocked by her vulnerability, although
~ Dean Koontz
face that looked partly melted.
~ Dean Koontz
she inhaled deeply and nearly choked. It tasted like shit.
~ Debbie Macomber
The first time I didn't say anything, because she shot me in the mouth.
~ Denis Johnson
Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle.
~ Denis Johnson
Frost had built on the dead grass, and it skirled beneath his feet. If not for this sound he'd have thought himself struck deaf, owing to the magnitude of the surrounding silence. All the night's noises had stopped. The whole valley seemed to reflect his shock. He heard only his footsteps and the wolf-girl's panting complaint.
~ Denis Johnson
The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.
~ Denis Johnson
I want to kick Grandma in the penis
~ Denise Mina
Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus.
~ Dennis Lehane
And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.
~ Dennis Lehane
People surprise you sometimes.
~ Dennis Lehane
Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.
~ Dennis Lehane
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ! -Claire
~ Diana Gabaldon
He blinked , and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height. My God, he croaked. You're huge.
~ Diana Gabaldon
What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?" he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Jesus H. Christ!" I exclaimed. I felt it again, unbelieving, but there it was. "You always said your head was solid bone, and I'll be damned if you weren't right. She shot you point-blank, and the bloody ball bounced off your skull!" Jamie
~ Diana Gabaldon
Do you have any idea how mortifying it is to have your own mother standing up in front of everybody, drawing pictures of penises?
~ Diana Gabaldon
You have lost your mind,Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.
~ Diana Gabaldon