shock

She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.

I was crying for the little girl I had been, who had withstood terrifying nightmares of death and blood and war and maiming. And when I had tried to share those horrors, the shock on my friends' faces had told me I was not normal, and I should keep my dreams to myself.

You can recover from the state of shock.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

Well, good-bye for now," he said, rolling his neck as if we hadn't been talking about anything important at all. He bowed at the waist, those wings vanishing entirely, and had begun to fade into the nearest shadow when he went rigid.His eyes locked on mine wide and wild, and his nostrils flared. Shock__ure shock flashed across his features at whatever he saw on my face, and he stumbled back a step. Actually stumbled. "What is_" I began.He disappeared__imply disappeared, not a shadow in sight__nto the crisp air.

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.

LIFE IS LIKE ELECTRICITY, ANYONE CAN SHOCK YOU

SHOCK ABSORBERSVeterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully

When my first attempt failed, fear brought into me a shock... I gave a smile, only to realize that my shock was gone. A smile is a shock absorber!

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way.

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.

Have you ever had a shock in life? It takes great hope, faith and courage to bounce back.

Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

I recovered from every shock of life's despair because God was merciful enough to restore me .

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.