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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

I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them. — Harold Brodkey

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

Once again, that startled, wary look. "I'm treating you to coffee," he said. That — Neal Stephenson

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

Slim throws me a startled look. I aim my bolt shooter at him. Who am I, you sonofabitch?
Helluva time for a identity crisis, he says. — Moira Young

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. — Sun Tzu

Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative 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 wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight. — Dylan Moran

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. — Sun Tzu

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

Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up? — J.K. Rowling

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

I get startled really easily, so I hate horror films. I have to close my eyes when I think something is going to make me jump, because I just scream. — Leigh Lezark

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.

Cause I'm not really a Dr. Seuss fan." I stared at her, startled. "Em, you gotta be a fuckin' communist, you don't like Dr. Seuss. Jesus. — Joanna Wylde

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some. — Richard Bach

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world. — P. J. O'Rourke

Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time. — Julia Quinn

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

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out! — H.C. Artmann

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

A sword and a shotgun lay across brackets in the wall, the rhinestones that covered them glittering under the overhanging lightbulb. Ethan startled — Blake Crouch

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

I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box ... — Rick Riordan

If I'm out shopping and someone talks to me, I get startled, as I'm not a natural celebrity. — Simon Weston

Francis, I'd play the Godfather for you," he told the startled director. "I wouldn't do it for those guys at Paramount, but I'd do it for you. — James Kaplan

His cold, unmoving face startled me, but the warmth from his hands left me curious and longing for more of his touch. — Magan Vernon