Quotes About Startled

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

It's only thunder. It just startled me, she said, her eyes on his. I'm not afraid of storms.' Let's see. Still, he moved slowly, taking his time as much to prolong this new moment as to gauge her reaction. He laid his hands on her hips as the rain beat and splashed, sliding them up her body, smooth and easy as he lowered his head, paused-one long breath-then fit his mouth to hers.

Desmond had a round head, chubby baby cheeks, and a voice that startled everyone the first time they heard it, it was so gruff and full of bass. His voice made the chucks jump when he crept up on them, and he got a kick out of it, until one day a supervisor with an even deeper voice crept up on him and taught him a lesson.

And the widow bird, startled, flew away, describing wider and wider circles until it became (what she called her soul) remote as a crow which has been startled up into the air by a stone thrown at it.

The touch of his lips on hers had startled her. He had tasted like coffee, warm and slightly bitter, and he had kissed back. That had startled her, too. As if he were ready for it, as if it were as much his idea as hers.

Well! And hallo you!

When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal, that stretched each minute to an excruciating eternity.

You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. Shut up! I hissed under my breath, and Dylan looked startled. I didn't say anything. Gritting my teeth, I nodded. No, I know. It's just- I decided to take a risk and stare him down. I hear voices, okay? If you're gonna be here, get used to it. Or else keep your distance.

her opener. She was startled out of her thoughts by someone calling her name. She looked up, saw the

was as surprised to hear me say it as I was. "Where have

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

I'm still startled when people ask me for writing advice.

I get startled really easily, so I hate horror films. I have to close my eyes when I think something is going to make me jump, because I just scream.

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

As I pass the Plaza Hotel with its beaux arts facade, I run into Bob Loomis coming out the front door. Loomis looks slightly startled, as though he's been caught voting NDP.

I dont suppose you have any glasses. They're in the kitchen. Western started to get up. I dont think you want to go back there. He sat back down again. It aint a pretty sight. Sink's so full of dishes you got to go outside to take a leak.

The wisps of her crisp dark hair blew about her as she stooped, her eyes were big and wide and dark, when she looked up again, strange, startled, shy and sardonic at once.

She woke me in the morning with cries of dismay.

I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

I drove home in a State of Utter: utterly startled, utterly confused, utterly flummoxed.

when someone spoke it startled me enough that I made several involuntary noises, a phrase which here means "sounds without meaning to." Involuntary noises are my least favorite kind of noise I can make. If I'm going to sound foolish I would at least like to have done it on purpose.