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Quotes About Shock

his life required a dramatic change, a splintering, some kind of scandal or shock or tremor, when he most wanted to flee, to rip off his suit and run screaming from the building, and go – where?
~ Diana Evans
And then Vaughn, too, lost the ability to speak. Or at least, she no longer heard it over the thunderous rush in her ears. She felt his hands on her shoulders, pulling her up and back out of the room, and he seemed to be shouting her name. Dark spots appeared in the corner of her vision. She choked and spluttered and stared into Vaughn's light brown eyes, until they were only things she could see. 'Breathe,' he ordered, and she did. Her lungs inflated, and she gasped., 'Mr. Boddy! He's dead!
~ Diana Peterfreund
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
~ Don DeLillio
Let's pray that God does select a very progressive man to the office of Peter because you are all going to be so shocked and confused when nothing changes! God could elect a very sinful, deaf, dumb, and blind idiot to the office of the papacy, and still nothing in matters of faith and morals will change!
~ Donald H. Calloway
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, NP
A horse broke through beside her, nearly knocking the mare over. At first Marian thought the horse unmounted, possibly Gisbourne's, running from the boar, because she saw no rider—and then she did see him and realized he was clad in the colors of the forest, nearly invisible, almost indistinguishable against the emerald, olive, and jade. It was the shock of white-blond hair that betrayed his identity, and the grimness of his features.
~ Jennifer Roberson
What in the world? I stare at him, my mouth open. "I never said you had an STD!
~ Jenny Han
And his dick looks like a hot dog that got hit with a sledgehammer and sewn back together by a blind lady." "Thanks, Port." "You're welcome, D.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Exactly how long can you stand on a street corner showing two drug dealers your scar-tissue-induced radical penis curvature? The answer is twelve seconds. After that it feels weird.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
My jaw drops to form a capital O, as in, O Holy Shit.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
I'm wearing a diaper. Right now.
~ Jerry Stahl
Life's a shock to the young. Shock to have an old man for a father instead of an angel. Shock to eat ham gravy instead of dew drops. And to like ham gravy. That's the worst shock of all. Find yourself fitting into this sorry world.
~ Jessamyn West
What happens when you get scared half to death twice?
~ Jessica Park
He is against politics in general and longs for the restitution of the monarchy. They have seen nothing but rioting and inflation in the five years since Wilhelm II abdicated. And Ania knows not to mention the Communists. Her father has not recovered from the shock of their brief takeover of Bavaria, which, for a few weeks in 1919, became the Bavarian Soviet Republic. If he begins on the subject, no one will hear of anything else for days. For Doktor Fortzmann all was better under the kaiser.
~ Jessica Shattuck
Jesu, she was naked!
~ Jessica Trapp
Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme -¡Jenny, estamos legalmente casados! -Si, ahora ya puedo comportarme como una perra
~ Erich Segal
Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.
~ Erik Larson
Twenty-five? Shawn squawked, horrified. Good Lord, he's a fetus!
~ Erin McCarthy
I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.' Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. That would give him a heart attack. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing.
~ Erin McCarthy
A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have never seen a man who lost the blood from his face so fast, and I wondered where it went
~ Ernest Hemingway
As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The crisis of identity is not only reserved for the partner who was betrayed. When the veil on a secret is lifted, the shock is not only for the one who discovers the affair but also for the one who was engaged in it. Looking at his or her behavior through the newly opened eyes of the aggrieved, the protagonist of the affair confronts a self-image that is barely recognizable.
~ Esther Perel
There is no fencing term I'm aware of for drawing a pistol and shooting your opponent in the face, but that was what it felt like when I heard his final words. I'd
~ Andrew Rowe