Quotes About Shock

Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

i gave a start as if goosed from behind

Darcangelo winced, gritted his teeth Want to tell me why ... you're sitting here cuddling me, Hunter? Rossiter says I have to keep you warm. He thinks you're in shock or some shit. Despite his words and the tone of his voice, there was really worry on Hunter's face. Great. Thanks. Darcangelo's head fell back to rest against Hunter's vest, the big guy's strength clearly spent. A muscle clenched in Hunter's jaw. Hey, don't mention it--ever.

Fuck her standing, Fuck her lying, Cut her throat and fuck her dying, When she's dead but not forgotten Dig her up and fuck her rotten.

Henry, for heaven's sake! You can't propose when I'm fainting!

as she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance

After listing the vast array of famous composers, artists, and authors who had created works based on Dante's epic poem, Langdon scanned the crowd. "So tell me, do we have any authors here tonight?" Nearly one-third of the hands went up. Langdon stared out in shock. Wow, either this is the most accomplished audience on earth, or this e-publishing thing is really taking off.

Christ!" Ferris said, recoiling. "What the hell is that?!" "Long story," Langdon replied. "I'll explain on the way.

Marta le flaquearon las piernas. Esa mañana había oído en las noticias que un alto cargo municipal no identificado había muerto la noche anterior, pero no se le había ocurrido que pudiera ser Ignazio.

PAHA SAPA PULLS HIS HAND BACK SHARPLY BUT NOT BEFORE HE feels the rattlesnake-strike shock of the dying Wasicun's ghost leaping into his fingers and flowing up his arm and into his chest. The boy lurches back in horror as the ghost burns its way up through his veins and bones like so much surging venom.

Suddenly a scream froze her in her tracks. It

You fat bitch ! he said, and the party gasped like a Greek chorus.

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

I had heard it all before—most of us had—but John T. had never heard any of it, because he usually didn't listen to anybody but himself. He was shocked. For almost a full minute, Sam having spoken to his satisfaction and John T. unable to speak at all, they just looked at each other.

The answer almost unmanned me.

Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive cleanliness.

Boy, I was daid.

Case gasped as his internal organs were pulled into a different configuration.

She realized then that she was screaming. Not words or anything, just screaming.

There is no case," he told her. "There's a series of random and implausible crises that make no sense other than if you believe the most dramatic possible shit. And there's a dead girl at the end of it all.

The shock I'd felt, standing in the doorway, was a terrible thing. But what was worse was that in a moment it was gone, as though all along a part of me had known that this was where I was headed. That I, too, hadn't been worth a man's faithful loving.

Everyone in this house has been shocked by Henry's death,