Quotes About Shock

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.' Flora

when she got the call, poor girl.

Why are you staring at my boobs? My face is up here," Trudy exclaims. Jack, the hotel employees, and I jump back like we've been electrocuted while the seniors don't skip a beat. No. She. Didn't. These geriatric devils are so bad.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.

my grandmother would freak you the fuck out.

Are you shitting me?" Chu cried, fully turned in his seat now. "Are you fucking shitting me?

I crawled up the embankment to Earl. I knew right away that he was dead.

People process and express shock and grief in different ways. Unusual behavior or a lack of obvious emotion should not be considered suspicious.

It is difficult, after the passage of more than a century, to understand the extent to which the train robbery of 1855 shocked the sensibilities of Victorian England. At first glance, the crime hardly seems

So I had to go to the Marriott," I finished. "You what?" He jumped to his feet as though he'd been hit with a cattle prod. "How could you do this, after everything that happened?

witnessed anything so obscene. The shocked silence among the boys in the

I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

floor in a pool of blood. His eyes were open. Blood and saliva trickled from his mouth. The

Being kissed by Gerhart was disappointing. I had expected a kiss to feel more like the time in Yamhill when I stuck my finger in the electric socket, only nice.

She wanted to do something bad. She wanted to do something terrible that would shock her whole family, something that would make them sit up and take notice.

Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids—all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine—it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order.

Gatlinburg is a shock to the system from whichever angle you survey it, but never more so than when you descend upon it from a spell of moist, grubby isolation in the woods. It sits just outside the main entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and specializes in providing all those things that the park does not—principally, slurpy food, motels, gift shops, and sidewalks on which to waddle and dawdle—nearly all of it strewn along a single, astoundingly ugly main street.

Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time. It took me a while to recognize that this was precisely the light of Iowa summers from my boyhood, and it was a shock to realize just how long it had been since I had seen it.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

The hour-and-a-half flight had given Nada time to get through his shock and realize this wasn't the brightest idea, being a pod-test dummy. But it was a bit too late for that. Actually, he didn't care much one way or the other. If he splatted in, so be it.