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Quotes About Stunned

There was for me during this time a sense of being dazed. As though, in a way, I was not capable of taking in everything that was happening in this world.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Colonel Hugh Pickering - Well, I'm dashed!
~ George Bernard Shaw
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.
~ Mike Nichols
Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather.
~ Sally Gardner
And with that memory, the anxiety snake struck so hard that it stunned Peter's breath out of him.
~ Sara Pennypacker
My father." I don't even know what punctuation mark to put after those two words. Lots of exclamation points!!! One lonely question mark? I need a cartoon balloon with every symbol available in it. Something that stands for stunned/terrified/pissed off/excited/depressed/happy/mad.
~ Sarah Bird
stunned it. Santiago, schooled in the ways
~ Simon Gandolfi
Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.
~ baldwin james vi
If they ever get around to building The Short Story Museum, I think they'd better carve this over the doorway: 'A short story works to remind us that if we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.
~ George Saunders
She opened her eyes very wide at
~ Georgette Heyer
I thought I'd learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.
~ Kiersten White
I froze, not knowing quite what to say.
~ Atul Gawande
My face felt like it had just been rammed into a brick wall . . . because it had.
~ Jon Scieszka
Istared at George's body.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Blade's jaw dropped
~ Erin Hunter
who still looked as if some cat had hit him over the head with a dead pigeon.
~ Erin Hunter
Barney Frank wanted to know where the Fed was going to get the $85 billion to lend to AIG. I didn't think this was the time to explain the mechanics of creating bank reserves. I said, "We have $800 billion," referring to the pre-crisis size of the Fed's balance sheet. Barney looked stunned. He didn't see why the Fed should have that kind of money at its disposal.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Stunned children stood in the middle of grubby yards.
~ Gillian Flynn
The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as stunned back into history...
~ Sebastian Barry
Let him be floored, O Lord, thought Kugel. Let him be stunned. Let him be flabber-fucking-gasted.
~ Shalom Auslander
Helen had to blink a couple of times before she could stop staring and felt her face warm with embarrassment. There was nowhere to look that that wasn't filled with either man pretty or man manly, so she decided she was better looking at the kitchen floor.
~ Shannon K. Butcher
Then he reached out and squeezed my hand; I stiffened in response to the unfamiliar gesture. When he relaxed his grip, his palm quaked against mine. Both yearning and pathetic, this act stunned me. Baba had not done more than clap a shoulder—or perhaps straighten my jacket or smooth a hair into place—in the last thirteen years.
~ Shawna Yang Ryan