Shock Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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 two legs. He was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Eye, Dark

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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 because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.

  Maya Banks

  Hurt, Lying, Done

  Maya Banks (2011). “Hidden Away”, p.151, Penguin

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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 had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Past, People, Realization

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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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

  Real, Culture, Coming Back

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.163, A&C Black

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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 think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

  Rick Yancey

  Thinking, Blood, Make You Think

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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 be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Book, Personality, Style

  "My Life’s Sentences" by Jhumpa Lahiri, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!

  Jackie Mason

  Crazy, War, Writing

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• I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Emotional, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

  Paul Virilio

  Winning, Messages, Digital

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.143, Verso

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• What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Bombs, Swallowing, Impression

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• I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Thinking, Historical

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• People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Rockers, Can Do

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• When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

  Christopher Booker

  Past, Years, Data

  "The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.

  Steve Chalke

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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