Shock Quotes
783 Shock quotes by 679 unique authors
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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…
— Emma Forrest
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When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
— David Levithan
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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…
— Lisa Kleypas
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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
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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…
— Kevin Hearne
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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…
— Sylvia Plath
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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
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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…
— Sylvia Plath
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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.…
— Pittacus Lore
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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
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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…
— Stephenie Meyer
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With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and…
— Maya Banks
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They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he…
— Patricia Highsmith
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
— Khaled Hosseini
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I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you…
— Rick Yancey
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The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman…
— Cassandra Clare
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He’s not feeling well,” Clary said, catching at Simon’s wrist. “We’re going.” “No,” Simon said. “No, I — I need to talk to him. To…
— Cassandra Clare
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Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone…
— Rick Riordan
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Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be…
— Cassandra Clare
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No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
— George Eliot
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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and…
— Winston Churchill
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Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I think it can be fun to be single and date like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of…
— Breckin Meyer
Who Wrote These Shock Quotes
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