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Quotes About Shock

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
~ Will Rogers
answer to penetrate, but when it did she clapped a hand over her mouth.
~ Sylvia Nobel
Pale beauty stands aghast," he said, "at the vulgar ugliness of men.
~ Tanith Lee
Finally, the lock clicked and she tugged the secret door open. A rotten stench hit her like a fist. She drew away. The boy at her side recoiled, afraid. Sarah fell to her knees. Sarah could not speak, she could only quiver, her fingers covering her eyes, her nose, blocking out the smell.....She sank to her knees again and she screamed at the top of her lungs, she screamed, for her mother, for her father, screamed for Michel.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
I find out the man is my Biological and he's standing there with his dick in his hand.
~ Tayari Jones
knew that things like this happen to people, but by people, I didn't mean us.
~ Tayari Jones
He had come to shock the people out of their complacency. This was evident in his every word. There were no sacred sheep in his flock.
~ Taylor Caldwell
I use charcoal in lots of things at Mere, from bread and choux to batters and sauces. I like the shock factor of the intense black colour without it tainting the curry spices, which happens when you use squid ink.
~ Monica Galetti
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
~ Alexander McQueen
We described the coronavirus crisis as more of a shock to the system as opposed to a full-blown recession which would spiral into a depression as the economy shut down.
~ Cathie Wood
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
~ Rowan Williams
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
~ J Harlen Bretz
Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire.
~ Neal Stephenson
Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.
~ Neal Stephenson
It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.
~ Neal Stephenson
If a zombie attack had actually materialized, then they might have had a clue as to how to respond. But a stupendous machine-gun free-for-all in the apartment above them was not an eventuality that they had ever thought of and so it froze them for a time.
~ Neal Stephenson
Oh, god!" Carl Hollywood said, and collapsed into a big, tatty, overstuffed chair they kept backstage for such purposes.
~ Neal Stephenson
Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire.
~ Neal Stephenson
She's in shock. Keep her head low and her legs high
~ Neal Stephenson
he's surprised your tits come wi' a head attached
~ Neal Stephenson
That's worst than gonerreha, man!
~ Ned Vizzini
But somewhere, there is a skeleton. And that skeleton has a penis. And it will fuck your life.
~ Neil Strauss
She expressed shock at my many injuries and scars. I kissed this little-ass, adorable-ass stripper mothafucka tenderly and said, "I'm not an insane maniac. I'm a poser insane maniac. I'm just dealing with the absurdity of existence by shoving absurdity down existence's throat." She
~ Neil Strauss