Stunned Quotes

• I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Numbness, Emotion, Default

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.312, Macmillan

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• A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

  Jason Biggs

  Girl, Apples, Pie

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• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  Ralph Nader

  Technology, Data, People

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• I was stunned to see that he looked stunned himself, which was an exorbitant display of emotion for Barrons.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Emotion, Display

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.51, Delacorte Press

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• She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Truth, Women

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• It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Thinking, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Years, Saws

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• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confused, War, Ducks

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned

  Patty Duke

  Mirrors, Mind, Looks

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.299, Bantam

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• Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Views, Mind Blowing

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Vocabulary, Blind Spots, People

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to boot.” Evie’s parents stared in stunned silence. “Or so I’ve heard.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Silence, Parent

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• She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Believe, Cities

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• Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

  Leonard Cohen

  Grief, Anxiety, Suffering

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Caring, Men

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• She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have a piece of cake for me, all right? The chocolate. It's delicious." She smiles a strange, twisted smile, and adds," I love you, you know." And then she's gone. I stand alone in the blue light coming from the lamp above me, and I understand: She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallways. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was a dauntless.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Love You, Light

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• We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Silence, Bird

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• I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Glasses, Break, Teapots

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• Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. "Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-

  Rick Riordan

  Speak English, Speak

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• No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.

  Darynda Jones

  Ideas, Drug, Together

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• Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Grief, Rain, Night

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

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• I am brave," Will said... "Yes, you are," Magnus said, and kissed him. It wasn't the most dramatic kiss, but Will failed his free arm as if a bee had landed on him; Magnus had to hope Camille would assume this was passion. When they broke apart, Will looked stunned. So did Camille, for that matter. ... Will swung sideways...He dashed across the room, retrieved it, and tucked it into Magnus's waistcoat pocket. Then, with a wink at Camille that, Magnus thought, God alone knew how she would interpret, he sauntered out of the room.

  Cassandra Clare

  Passion, Kissing, Brave

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• Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let out a low whistle. "Are you sure? How can you tell?" It wasn't a sensible question, but Erak was overwhelmed by the size of the horse herd and he asked the question more for something to say than for any other reason. Halt looked at him dryly. "It's an old calvary trick," he said. "You count the legs and divide by four.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Numbers, Twelve

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• He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

  Rachel Caine

  Hands, House, Looks

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• We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned. Adrian spoke first. "I'm going to assume that means he's flying you to Amsterdam on his private jet. If so, I'd like to come along. But not for the windmills.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Flying, Amsterdam

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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