Shock Quotes - Page 31

• Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

  Yann Martel

  Pain, Blessed, Heart

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• And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

  Anita Shreve

  Grief, Might, Way

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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• You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Children, War

  Slaughterhouse-Five ch. 5 (1969)

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• But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Rain, Weather

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

  Mira Grant

  Thinking, Said, Posts

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• In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Giving, Lovely

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval." I stared at him. "You made a *joke*." "I have heard this kind of thing may happen.

  Robin McKinley

  Morning, Vampire, Doe

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• Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock.

  Kirsten Miller

  Love, People, One Day

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.44, Penguin

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• Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Life, Running, Never Let Me Go

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Sep 24, 2016

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• Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Wise, Baby, Sleep

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.189, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

  Neal Shusterman

  Loss, Two, Tragedy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Teeth, Armor

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

  Emma Forrest

  Kissing, Feelings, Wish

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.183, A&C Black

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• I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

  Emma Forrest

  Men, Needs, Kind

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• When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

  David Levithan

  Understanding

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• Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed you honey from a silver spoon. Of course, you wouldn't be able to make all your high-minded judgments if you were a fallen woman...but you wouldn't care. Because I would pleasure you, Hannah, every night, all night, until you forgot your own name. Until you were willing to do things that would shock you in the light of day. I would debauch you from your head down to your innocent little toes-" "Oh, I despise you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

  Mary Renault

  Unexpected, Kind, Expected

  Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• ... we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of Ronnie James Dio. My shock at this news was such that I almost completely missed the fact that we were traveling on Bifrost, the rainbow bridge to Asgard.

  Kevin Hearne

  Dark, Bridges, Rainbow

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1504, Del Rey

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• I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fear, Night, Tunnels

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.

  Pittacus Lore

  Jobs, Hands, Numbers

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• This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

  Tucker Max

  Personality, Suffering, May

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

  Anne Sexton

  Song, Voice, Smell

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jesus, Pain, Eye

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK

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