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Quotes About Astonishment

You are blowing my mind.
~ Keri Smith
That's Carlos?" Phineas lowered his sword and whistled under his breath. "Hello, kitty.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
I'd never seen so many books. Never. The sight made my eyes water. I mean, tear right up.
~ Carol Lynch Williams
Good grief," Michael said as he sat down in one of the 64 enormous upholstered chairs. "My feet don't even think about touching the floor." "This table is longer than the bowling alley," Trent said. He shielded his eyes with his hand and peered down the long wooden table as though he couldn't see the other end. "If you wanted someone to pass you the salt shaker it would take thirty minutes for it to get here," Wendy agreed.
~ Carole Marsh
Your jaw drops and your mouth opens and then it closes and your eyes are wide and you are dazzled. You purr. "He says he's sorry when he's wrong and he lets me spend two hours looking at couches I don't need? Joe, are you for real?
~ Caroline Kepnes
What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.
~ Cassandra Clare
A fish on a leash, he said, chortling. There's a sight I never saw before.
~ George R.R. Martin
The owls appeared now, drifting from tree to tree as silently as flakes of soot, hooting in astonishment as the moon rose higher and higher, turning to pink, then gold, and finally riding in a nest of stars, like a silver bubble.
~ Gerald Durrell
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
~ Rupert Brooke
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
~ Andre Maurois
If our petitions are in accordance with His will, and if we seek His glory in the asking, the answers will come in ways that will astonish us and fill our hearts with songs of thanksgiving.
~ J. K. Maclean
Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
~ Alice James
If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.
~ Author unknown, c. 1970
Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears?
~ J.D. Robb
Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? "I've
~ J.D. Robb
He's not going anywhere," Clint said. As Clint stepped inside he saw Toby Carmichael coming toward him with his hand outstretched. He was shocked, because his
~ J.R. Roberts
I didn't know it would be black, she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. Oh, Christ!
~ J.R. Ward
As V dropped the bomb, there was a momentary period of silent saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay-whaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Then a shit-ton of gasps and cursing in the room, all kinds of WTF hitting the airwaves.
~ J.R. Ward
Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.
~ J.R. Ward
Holy f*ck the Brother announced, the butler did it?
~ J.R. Ward
Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!
~ J.R. Ward
Christ on a crutch
~ J.R.Ward
Shut the front door!
~ Jaci Burton
This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.
~ Jack Kerouac