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She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
— Raymond Chandler
Startled, I flinched "What are you doing?""Keeping you from going postal."
"You're doing it wrong. — L.B. Gregg
they sleep, they can be startled, even there in the soothing of the heart, like waves on the shore around them. A
— Margaret Atwood
Are you here to kill me? The question startled her, but with the day I was having, I thought it was justified.
— Kalayna Price
I was startled by his touch. I hadn't realized he was so close to me, because I seemed so far from myself.
— Stephanie Dray
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.
— Shirley Hazzard
You read a lot, don't you, Ponyboy?"I was startled. "Yeah, why?"
"I could just tell. I'll bet you watch sunsets, too. — S.E. Hinton
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
— Judith Lewis Herman
One of those professional drivers hit one of those blockade barriers. It was the first car accident I have ever been in, so I was a little startled.
— Matt Hasselbeck
Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawnIndicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass. — Emily Dickinson
Geoffrey looked startled to see both his great-uncles bearing down upon him with such haste; he hadn't realized men their age could move so fast.
— Sharon Kay Penman
Even his hair seemed more startled than usual.
— Stephanie Perkins
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
— Yahoo Serious
So I was startled when Parker lifted me into his arms and strode out of the room and to a car parked right outside.
— Rochelle Paige
Victoria jumped, startled at her presence.
— Latrivia S. Nelson
Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.
— George R R Martin
She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
— Cinda Williams Chima
Who cares what most men do? I say. He looks startled. Clearly the idea of not giving a shit has failed to occur to him.
— Charlotte Stein
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
— Arthur Golden
A small laugh startled me and I looked over to see her actually smiling. Making her do that more often was a new goal.
— Abbi Glines
Vaisey looked like a startled earwig.
— Louise Rennison
I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Thought of blowing your brains out?"William blinked, startled.
"No."
"That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it? — Diana Gabaldon
It was a nephilim.""A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time. — Richelle Mead
Murtagh was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women had voices, but he nodded politely enough.
— Diana Gabaldon
Romeo was late. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo ... I snorted. It was so loud it startled a girl at a nearby table.- Rimmel — Cambria Hebert
mind was simply the operation of the brain, an idea that struck me with force; it startled my naive understanding of the world
— Paul Kalanithi
Tiki ran hard, ignoring the startled looks of strangers. It felt good to run, to run away from her sadness and fear.
— Kiki Hamilton
I have been too sudden. I have startled you, my sweet! But you will let me teach you to care for me?
— Annie Haynes
He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
— Cassandra Clare
What sorts of sin?Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural. — Elspeth Huxley
I'm about to panic when I remember the rabbit I startled earlier today. It has to drink, too. I just have to find out where.
— Suzanne Collins
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
— Agatha Christie
hates to be startled, or scared, or surprised.
— Emily McLeod
We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.
— Laurence Cosse
He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.
— Amanda McCabe
Hi, Lady Jane!" A large grey cat leaped from some neighbouring shelf on his shoulder and startled us all.
— Charles Dickens
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
— P. J. O'Rourke
She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk
— Susan Crandall
Startled from a bad dream, or perhaps still in one...
— Courtney Maum
As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.
— Terence McKenna
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
— Ernest Rutherford
She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
— Lewis Carroll
he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six.
— Lorrie Moore
A startled giggle burst out of me. Paranormal Management Society. PMS. I hadn't even thought of it like that.
— Rachel Hawkins
He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?""He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa.
"What a beautiful thing to hear. — Cassandra Clare
Startled pigeons filled the old, shadowy rooms and crumbling hallways with their soft thunder.
— Stephen King
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.
— Christopher Hitchens
Sabrina leaned in and pressed her lips to Puck's. There was a little static shock that startled her and she stepped back with her hands on her mouth.
— Michael Buckley
I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.
— P.G. Wodehouse
