Shocked Quotes - Page 11

• When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Jobs, Cancer, Heart

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Screwed Up

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas! The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve? Rose: [shocked] What? The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me anything; I'm on fire!

  Steven Moffat

  Father, Fire, Doctors

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• I love you in–in every kind of way.’ ‘I feel like that too . . .’ His voice is shocked and raw. ‘It’s – it’s a feeling so big I sometimes think it’s going to swalow me. It’s so strong I feel it could kil me. It keeps growing and I can’t – I don’t know what to do to stop it. But – but we’re not supposed to do this – to love each other like this!

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Love You, Thinking

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• I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?" She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?" She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him. "Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stupid, Love You, Mean

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• The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Eye, Glowing

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

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• Since the moment I laid eyes on Jericho Barrons, I wanted him. I wanted him to do things to me that pink and clueless MacKayla Lane was shocked and appalled and ... okay, yeah, well, utterly fascinated to find herself thinking about.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Clueless, Eye, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Shadowfever: Fever:”, p.432, Hachette UK

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• I ejaculated about ten minutes ago and the stuff was black. So everything is not normal." Silence greeted that happy little announcement. Man, if he had hauled off and sucker-punched V, he would have gotten less of a shocked-out reaction.

  J.R. Ward

  Sex, Men, Silence

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.125, Penguin

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• Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Children, Block, Rip

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Understanding, Way

  "In Reckless Ecstasy". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Bells, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.130, 谷月社

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• I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had dismissed the notion as pure exaggeration. Little did I realize the actual physical weakness. It felt as if my bones had dissolved and my muscles could no longer support my weight.

  Maria V. Snyder

  People, Support, Weakness

  Maria V. Snyder (2017). “Storm Glass: A Fantasy Novel with Murder and Magic”, p.267, MIRA

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• Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Cat, Gun

  "Eric". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

  Kristin Hannah

  Numbness, Shells, Littles

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• It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Faults, Sin

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?” “Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Moving, Just Saying

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1377, Simon and Schuster

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• He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.

  P. C. Cast

  Wise, Queens, Warrior

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Lord Maccon asked meekly, shifting against her in a manner that ensured she realized the nibbling had affected his outsides just as much as her insides. Alexia was partly shocked, partly intrigued by the idea that as he was naked, she might actually get to see what he looked like. She had seen sketches of the nude male, of course, for purely technical purposes. She was given to wonder if werewolves were anatomically bigger in certain areas.

  Gail Carriger

  Ideas, Males, Naked

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• I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis. . . . The steady stoicism of my parents. . . . Candlelit vigils. . . . And finally, my glorious resurrection.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Flower, School, Reality

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• He leaned closer to me and then seemed shocked as he realized what he was doing. "Why would you do that? Why would you do that for me?

  Richelle Mead

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.191, Penguin

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• I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupidity, Would Be, Lines

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

  Niels Bohr

  Physics, Mechanic, Quantum

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• I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

  Stephen Moyer

  Daughter, Mother, America

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• As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.

  Mike Caro

  Long, People, Watches

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• People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy

  James Lafferty

  Nice, Character, People

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