Quotes About Wince

She warned him that, if he got killed, she should cut down the great cedar at the south-west corner of Groby. It kept all the light out of the principal drawing-room and the bedrooms above it.... He winced: he certainly winced at that. She regretted that she had said it. It was along other lines that she desired to make him wince.

Oh." The boy winced. "Oh!" "Oh-ho-ho!" Chains reached out and slapped the boy on the shoulder. "Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

Melrose winced. He lived in a world of dried-up pheasant and one-liners.

It's not like me and Lesley are inconspicuous,' I'd said. Nightingale had winced, as he always does, at my incorrect use of the accusative pronoun but I think I'm beginning to wear him down.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Evie winced. What? cried Carlos. Are they hurting her? Only with bad puns.

I'd hate to interrupt this witch hunt with a substantive conversation." I glance over to the corner of the room, where Carolyn Brock winces, a rare break in her implacable expression.

Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will! He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man.

When we share vulnerability, especially shame stories, with someone with whom there is no connectivity, their emotional (and sometimes physical) response is often to wince, as if we have shone a floodlight in their eyes. Instead of a strand of delicate lights, our shared vulnerability is blinding, harsh, and unbearable. If we are on the receiving end, our hands fly up and cover our faces, we squeeze our entire faces (not just our eyes) shut, and we look away.

That high pitch scream emitted by Rose made me wince! Her ear bursting howls would stun me into silence as much as it silenced the eldest child in their home, eight-year-old Anna-Marie.

I abjure you," Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. "I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.

Coriolanus winced a little. For a decade now, though the rebels had been silent, his grandmother had not.

I wince at his casual disrespect as I follow Captain Perceval into the rear.

Annie winced. "Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

Darcangelo winced, gritted his teeth Want to tell me why ... you're sitting here cuddling me, Hunter? Rossiter says I have to keep you warm. He thinks you're in shock or some shit. Despite his words and the tone of his voice, there was really worry on Hunter's face. Great. Thanks. Darcangelo's head fell back to rest against Hunter's vest, the big guy's strength clearly spent. A muscle clenched in Hunter's jaw. Hey, don't mention it--ever.

I'm afraid I don't know her," he said, with the slight wince that came when you asked him about music that had come out since his own release. This always made Chia feel sorry for him, which she knew was ridiculous.

I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I've just swallowed a glass of somebody's urine and I'm recommending it.

and the Butler gave her a ride back to the apartment in a wheelbarrow. She did not laugh so much as wince and be pale.)

I open it so he has no choice. At the crack of the top and the sound of the fizz he winces like one more Coke down, one less in the world.