Quotes About Shock

Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

Jesus!" "Are you hurt?" "Jesus!" "Walk down the hallway and come back when you have more vocabulary.

Neither of them even had time to scream.

You ate the police?! I exclaimed.

This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

There's not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings, so you can get things done.

Staring down into her mutinous face, he said ruefully, "Don't look like that. Good God, one would think we were conspiring to murder someone." "I have just the person in mind," she muttered. "You had better pray that nothing ever happens to him, because then I would become the earl. And I would wash my hands of the estate." "Would you really?" She seemed genuinely shocked. "Before you could blink.

Sometimes it's not the truth itself but the surprise that feels like a blow.

Whoa dude. My belt came undone when you said that.

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

I . . . For Pete's sake," snaps Tom. "How can you all just stand here asking me these questions when she's lying down there? Being pecked at, eaten, by crows, scavengers!

There were photos of steel grappling hooks in the meat shed where the Watt Lake Killer had hung, gutted, flayed, and bled out his victims like slaughtered deer. Photos

Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it." "Of course we will," Sophye said. "He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said. "No, he asked me to marry him." There was a short stunned silence. Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

shocked second, glanced

Her heart just about stopped. "Us?" she asked in shock. "There is no us. There's a you. And there's a me. And okay, so sometimes we get crazy and become a very momentary us but it's not real." "It could be," he said. She gaped at him, completely gobsmacked.

I didn't expect the water to be this high

Damn. A dead body. I hate it when that happens.

What the flip?

The kiss had been shockingly... wow. Which had led to one thing or another, and some more wow, along with a good dash of yowza, and then... the whole morning-after thing.

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