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Quotes About Startling

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.
~ Katherine Waterston
It was the sound of something heavy striking something composed of flesh and bone. Hannah wasn't sure how she knew that, but she did. And her blood ran cold.
~ Joanne Fluke
It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.
~ Cleo Moore
No os lo vais a creer, pero ayer por la noche, a eso de las cuatro de la madrugada, vi en la tele una película que era mi biografía o mi autobiografía o un resumen de mis días en el puto planeta Tierra. Me cago en la hostia santa, el susto que me dio casi me hizo que me cayera del sillón.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'm afraid startling things are not impossible, Miss Chesney.
~ Rumer Godden
We're alive!" Swedish told her. "I did not see that coming.
~ Joel N. Ross
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
~ Mira Nair
i'm afraid he looks rather startling" Mr Carter said, as though apologising for the spider's appearance, "but he's quite gentle really. He wouldn't hurt a fly. Or rather he would hurt a fly but he wouldn't hurt anything else," he amended.
~ Anthony Buckeridge
The surprise was total.
~ Anthony Everitt
till it jumped out of a jar and bit her). She was thirty-nine.
~ Anthony Everitt
There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.
~ Tobin Bell
It's like being hit up the arse by a rainbow.
~ Rod Eddington
Here, don't forget your bells." Elvi grimaced as she took the anklet laced with bells. They'd been a gift from Mabel right after her turning. She'd claimed she thought they were charming, but Elvi knew the truth was they kept her from sneaking up on the other woman and startling her. Mabel had never admitted it
~ Lynsay Sands
We kept each other's stare a long time, for we had each done a startling thing, dodged time for an instant - which is the only definition of happiness I know.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Life so often arrives all of a sudden.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.
~ Sarah Dessen
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Most things in life come as a surprise.
~ Lykke Li
When's the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious?
~ Bobby Heenan
When I woke, my anguish was specific: the possibility that it was as painful for them to be remembered as it was for me to remember them; that I was haunting my parents and Bella with my calling, startling them awake in their black beds.
~ Anne Michaels
Quotations Oh man, I hate that poofing shit. You scared me so bad, Ash, you made me eat this crappy cheese. (Nick in Night Embrace).
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me." I nodded toward the mess. "And if you knew my life, you'd realize just how freaky that is.
~ Patricia Briggs
That would explain the pigs I saw flying over frozen Hell this morning,
~ John Gilstrap
You eat babies
~ John Marston