Quotes About Startled

Squirrelpaw's eyes widened, though she looked more impressed than frightened.

She had the startled-rabbit look that civilians get after five minutes of helping the police with their inquiries. If they stay calm for too long it's a sign that they're professional villains or foreign or just plain stupid. All of which can get you locked up if you're not careful. If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

She had the startled rabbit look that civilians get after five minutes of helping the police with their inquiries. If they stay calm for too long, it's a sign that they're professional villains, or foreign or just plain stupid.

You have no idea what it's like when you can't trust your own parent. He was so startled that he retreated a half step. The truth was that Ian knew exactly what it was like.

She dismounted, grabbed Enna's hand so tightly that she drew blood with her fingernails, walked straight into the nearest cottage, and plopped down on a bed. Enna nodded to the startled cottage dwellers. It's the queen, you see," said Enna. "She's going to have a baby in your house. You don't mind?

I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

The victim of oppression is always, and understandably, startled and resentful of the anxieties and burdens that new freedom entails—its call to greater responsibility, discipline, and sacrifice. But there it is.

Oh, look. The idiot of the jungle awakens.

I am feeling quite well, I thank you, my lord, she said as coolly as she was able. Not so easy a thing to accomplish when one had just looked up, startled, into a pair of very blue bedroom eyes. Gracious, he had no business looking at anyone that way. Not outside the bedroom, anyway.

Love had taken her quite unawares.

His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating.

Am I the only one getting shocked to smithereens here?

Kanezaki," I said. He spun, startled to hear my voice so close. "Shit," he said, perhaps a little embarrassed. I smiled. He looked a little older than he had the last time I had seen him, leaner, more seasoned. The wire-rimmed glasses no longer made him look bookish. Instead, they gave his face… focus, somehow. Precision.

There was an unbelievable creature about a foot high looking at me; it then quickly turned and passed into the bathroom. It looked very much like a large lizard walking on its hind legs.

The old tabby gave a startled snort, looking around wildly. "What is it? Foxes? Let me get at 'em!

I was admiring the view from my second story window when the screaming started.

cry so strange that it frightened him.

This is what she hated most about the on-line world, the shadows as much as the bright lights of the legal nets: too many men assumes that the nets were exclusively their province, and were startled and angry to find out that it wasn't.

You look like you've swallowed a live fish, and you're not certain if you're enjoying the experience.

Next thing she knows she's lying flat on her back and three grizzled Mexicans are standing over her, trying

outside the garage, closed the gate, and was just about to enter through the side door when I was met by Amanda and Bob. They'd heard the gate

When I wink at him, his eyebrows jump high. "We should cut him up," Camouflage One says. "Cut him into little pieces." I feign being startled and turn toward him. "Oh my, I didn't see you there." "What?" "In those camouflage pants. You really blend in. By the way, they are very fetching on you." "Are you some kind of wiseguy?" "I'm many kinds of wiseguy." All the smiles, including mine, grow. They

My scalp jumped. I stuck my head around the corner. "Sir?" "Go to bed.

Or maybe the ... shock of it started me covering up all kinds of memories the way a squirrel hides a nut and forgets where he's buried it.