Quotes About Shifted

She reached to give him an awkward hug, and when he hugged her back, his hand accidentally touched her belly. It was surprisingly hard and something shifted beneath the surface. "Oh, shit!" he yelped, jerking back. "What's wrong?" "It, uh, moved." "Feels like an alien, doesn't it? I swear to God, I have nightmares that it's going to burst out of my stomach like a monster. But I think it's pretty harmless.

The men's attention had shifted to a young man crouched on a stool in the corner. He had barely looked up through my appearance and interrogation, but kept his head bent, hand clutching the opposite shoulder, rocking slightly back and forth in pain.

Don't believe that the book is losing sight of you, Reader. The you that was shifted to the Other Reader can, at any sentence, be addressed to you again. You are always a possible you. Who would dare to sentence you to the loss of the you, a catastrophe as terrible as the loss of the I. For a second-person discourse to become a novel, at least two you's are required, distinct and concomitant, which stand out from the crowd of he's, she's and they's.

It was as if I'd suffered a chemical change of the spirit: as if the acid balance of my psyche had shifted and leached the life out of me in aspects impossible to repair, or reverse, like a frond of living coral hardened to bone.

Now I understand why you grow so many flowers. She shifted her head, not understanding. I said, To cover the stink of sulphur.

The trees thinned just before the crumbling

The crowd was pushed back despite their best efforts. Some of them flung bottles and other objects toward the funnels and were surprised when they shifted course right back at them. Apparently you don't have to understand physics to protest.

I was unimpressed, having heard ART's "villain of a long-running mythic adventure serial" voice before, but all the humans got quiet. Amena shifted uncertainly and looked at me. Then Ratthi whispered, "Was that a subtle threat?" I said, "No. It wasn't subtle.

They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts Reddened their necks, collared their clothes Then we danced the dance 'til the menace got out She gathered the corners and called it her gown She said Oh, please, find my harborcoat Can't go outside without it Find my harborcoat Can't go outside without it

Instead of answering, Judd—having built up the correct focus—bent the muzzle of the gun downward, rendering it ineffective. The rebel Arrow threw it aside, hitting Judd with a telepathic blow at the same time … but Judd had his psychic hands in the cells of the male's heart. He shifted things enough to pinch a blood vessel.

the purser has something resembling joy in her voice when she welcomes us to San Francisco. 'I probably don't need to tell you all to open the overhead bins with caution,' she says. 'If your contents haven't shifted, you must be carrying lead weights.