Quotes About Shock

Travers was still stunned. She had never heard Wotan raise his voice, let alone yell. She didn't move a muscle.

gasps a little, blinks his eyes three or four times and indulges in a convulsive shiver

When Harry had held it, it had shat in his hand.

That ewe's life had been saved not by medicinal therapy but simply by stopping her pain and allowing nature to do its own job of healing. It was a lesson I have never forgotten; the animals confronted with severe continuous pain and the terror and shock that goes with it will often retreat even into death, and if you can remove that pain amazing things can happen. It is difficult to explain rationally but I know that it is so.

I have known a lady, John, who was delivered of a blackamoor child, merely from the circumstance of having got a start by the sudden entrance of her negro servant, and not being able to forget him for several hours

Wilhuff had had ample time to grow accustomed to the sight, scent, and taste of blood, but he had never seen so much human blood spilled in one place.

I ripped her. I shoved my hand in her blouse and jerked. She was wide open from her throat to her belly. "You got that climbing out. You caught it in the door handle." My voice sounded queer, like it was coming out of a tin phonograph. "And this you don't know how you got." I hauled off and hit her in the eye as hard as I could.

It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn

Fang, I said, my voice breaking. Just live, okay? Live and be okay. With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his mouth, just like that. Ow, he said, touching his split lip, then he and I stared at each other in shock.

She's about as sweet as a flaming turd.

You know the pop is coming, but damn if it don't always surprise you.

I think if you did, you might not be shocked by it. Teachers are expected to do more and more, and much of the parenting authority has been ceded to us by the parents. In the media they call it teacher accountability, but really it's a lack of parent accountability. There's no respect anymore. I'm afraid I find the violence in this case shocking but not exactly the murder itself. Does that make sense?

some being attended to by EMS teams. "Oh, Jesus," I whispered under my breath. I spotted medical techs in black windbreakers huddled over the body of a young girl by the front steps. A couple of plainclothesmen were nearby. One of them was my

It's done, Julio," he said. "She's dead. Now get the hell out of there. You killed Caroline Hopkins. Congratulations.

Rhonda's eyes were so wide that I thought they might fall out of her head and roll around on the floor.

it was news to almost everyone else on the call.

Dr. Sven Wallace. That is, up until last year around this time, when Wallace died suddenly of a heart attack. He

catalepsy could be triggered by disease, certain drugs, or traumatic shock. And if the "undead" was cooled down—for instance, by being stored inside a morgue's cold room—the brain would remain functional until death took over or the person awoke.

Rafe jumped Miller!" Gabe said. The problem was, it was true. There were about three dozen witnesses.

Licata's free hand clapped over his gaping mouth

Fred, came home from his Sunday round of golf later than normal and looked very tired. 'Bad day at the course?' his wife asked. " 'Everything was going fine,' said Fred. 'Then Harry had a heart attack and died on the tenth tee.' 'Oh, that's awful!' said the wife. 'You are not kidding,' said Fred. 'For the whole back nine, it was hit the ball, drag Harry, hit the ball, drag Harry.

I was going to take off all my clothes and streak through the hallway.

was as surprised to hear me say it as I was. "Where have

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.