Quotes About Shock

Motherforker!

She let out a small choked sound that might have been a laugh or genuine distress. "Café…Nirvana?" He didn't try to hold back his amusement at her shock. "That's right." "Café Nirvana, in the town of Little Paradise?

Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is?

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple defenses; the phony facades people live behind. Blocking their perceptions from coming in, and blocking their feelings from coming put. There are two way I try to shatter those facades, or at least make a hole where something can get in, to let the trapped feelings out--one way is violence, pain. The other is eroticism.

recognize now that there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves....it obliterates the dailiness of life. .. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind.

Oh. My. Godz. Could you?

It has always astonished me how changes come into one's life. The gradual change becomes acceptable, but sudden shock, presenting itself without warning to shatter the existence so completely that nothing will ever be the same again, makes me uneasily aware of the perpetual uncertainties of life.

How could you do such a thing to your husband?" Toni looked at Melisande with shocked eyes. "Quite simply because he bored me. He agreed with everything I ever said, and not once in our four years together did he give me a bruise. He knelt to me when I wanted him to dominate me. He let me make a fool of him with a dozen men, but Luque was, on that point, a perfect Spaniard. He turned his back on me and so I stabbed him!

Even shit going plash sometimes makes a splash.

Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.

I think I might get laid more...by my dad.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

I stop still with the shock and fell my head swim. Richard takes my hand. We stand for a moment, handclasped as if we are clinging to each other in this new and terrifying world. We don't notice the passing servants, or the courtiers hurrying by. Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our own destiny in a world we could not understand.

The community of nations has in the past claimed and successfully asserted the right to intercede on behalf of the violated rights of man trampled upon by the State in a manner calculated to shock the moral sense of mankind.

How could a truck hack off my baby and leave the rest of my toes intact?

Here we received the first blows: and it was so new and senseless that we felt no pain, neither in body nor in spirit. Only a profound amazement: how can one hit a man without anger?

I gabbed Ivy's arm. Look. Ivy. Something just moved - by that tombstone. We both stared into the gray light. Oh, noooo, I moaned. I watched, trembling in horror as someone climbed out of a grave.

And in the corner … piled up in the corner, I saw animal heads. Even in the dim light, I could see them so clearly. Piled on top of each other. Rabbit heads, squirrel heads, a couple of raccoon heads, eyes staring blankly, glassily at me. "NOOOO!" I screamed without realizing it. What kind of creature lives here? What kind of beast builds its own hut and keeps dead animals inside it?

him!" I cried. "Somebody

Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.