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Tag Name "Startled" (55)

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Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. For my next trick, I panted into the startled silence, anvils.
Jim Butcher
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The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. Hey handsom Mimi sent. What's up? Jack replied, without speaking. Just thinking of you. Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively.
Melissa de la Cruz
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If I'm out shopping and someone talks to me, I get startled, as I'm not a natural celebrity.
Simon Weston
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The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.
Marion Woodman
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She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
Alice Walker
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I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight.
Dylan Moran
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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