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Quotes About Shock

Dimka, not you too.
~ Richelle Mead
Oh God," I groaned, "Seth Mortensen just said 'fucking' out loud. The end of times are near.
~ Richelle Mead
You were totally unprepared for her
~ Richelle Mead
He froze, and it was one of those rare moments when Adrian Ivashkov was caught totally and completely off guard. "Did you know," he said slowly, "that Victor Dashkov is sitting on your bed?" "Yeah," I said. "It was kind of a shock to us too.
~ Richelle Mead
They never expect the knife.
~ Richelle Mead
She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs, but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh.
~ Roald Dahl
The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. They were STAGGERED.
~ Roald Dahl
Oh my gawd dad, what've you done to your hair?" the son shouted.
~ Roald Dahl
Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It's a nasty story. I got that much before my informant sobered up. Dr. Ward Smith delivered his wife by Caesarean section—and she died on the table. What he did next shows that he knew the score; with the same scalpel he cut Captain Brant's throat—then his own. Sorry, hon." Jill
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, my God!" "Compose yourself.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Joe did everything else properly, too—finished taking the head off, threw the body into the street for his friends to take away if he had any, for the scavengers to remove if not—then displayed the head in front of the shop on a spike meant for such purpose. Then he closed his shutters and cleaned up the mess—then may have taken time to throw up;
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Gentlemen, all the so-called recreational drugs that have come into wide use in the last few decades may be chemical shock devices. I think people are bleaching out their old imprints, and accidentally making new ones, when they think they're just getting high and having fun.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
So far so good. I had a recently widowed mother and her orphaned son crying hysterically. Maybe for an encore I could shoot the family dog.
~ Robert B. Parker
The woman looked at me as if I had proposed sodomy.
~ Robert B. Parker
Nobody would be quite as surprised as my wife, when I killed her.
~ Robert Bloch
Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. It sounded as though somebody was tapping on the windowpane.
~ Robert Bloch
Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. It sounded as though somebody was tapping on the windowpane. He looked up, hastily, half prepared to rise, and the book slid from his hands to his ample lap. Then he realized that the sound was merely rain. Late afternoon rain, striking the parlor window.
~ Robert Bloch
He bent to take her arm, and I saw his shirt was spattered with blood. Streaks and drips of blood marked his shirt with slaughterhouse designs, and more blood speckled his face. I
~ Robert Crais
The begging snapped into a sharp muffled shriek, just one, just the one terrible muted cry. Krista couldn't move. She stared at the door as if it were a nightmare painting from Hieronymus Bosch's personal, tortured hell. Then
~ Robert Crais
I gave it to him from the beginning. I had told it so many times to so many cops I thought about making mimeographed copies and handing them out. When I told the part about Nobu Ishida, Jack Ellis said, "Holy shit.
~ Robert Crais
The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.
~ Robert Ferrigno
Ta-da! The man whipped open his coat. Shit! He wasn't wearing any clothes at all. She grimaced. Just her luck to go vampire hunting and find a flasher.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
I think my water just broke.' I took an instinctive step back. Because, gross. 'Omigod.
~ Kieran Scott