Quotes About Astonishment

You can get an erection less than an hour after I've tried to kill you? she said in disbelief. Just how perverse are you? Let me show you.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feeling save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories.

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast.

Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

Nick's eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the Twilight Zone?

I didn't know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn't know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don't give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)

Good grief, Fury, warn me if you're going to jump in here naked. (Bride)

St. Ash – who knew? (Gallagher)

Holy crud! (Simone)

Never is my life have I ever experienced anything as crazy as this.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he'd brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.

You cannot be serious. You CANNOT BE SERIOUS!

Everything this woman says surprises me.

It was a woman--as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped pupils, reminiscent of an octopus.

When word came that Keith had died of cancer, Abel was astonished. That astonishment had to do with death, with the wiping out of a person, with the puzzlement that the man was simply gone.

I could not believe that I was sitting in the sky

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.