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#1

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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#2

“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—pure 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—simply disappeared, not a shadow in sight—into the crisp air.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

tags: eyes, feyre, mystery, rhys, rhysand, shock

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#3

“It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
― Alan Moore & David Lloyd, V for Vendetta

tags: protest, revolution, shock, silence

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#4

“Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.”
― peter kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: catholicism, christ, christianity, heaven, hell, jesus, jesus-christ, jesus-shock, meeting-jesus, philosophy, shock, spirituality, theology

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#5

“So this was shock. It seemed terribly inconvenient that the brain's reaction to being placed in mortal peril as to become much stupider.”
― Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

tags: funny, shock, stupid

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#6

“Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: boggs, finnick, funny, humour, hunger-games, katniss, mockingjay, odair, suzanne-collins, witty

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#7

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor

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#8

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex

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#9

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

tags: funny, ghost, jesper, six-of-crows

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#10

“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

tags: fantasy, feyre, new-adult, romance, tamlin

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#11

“You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

tags: humor

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#12

“She wasn’t light; she was color. Every single one, dancing otherworldly and bright over his unworthy eyes. She was the explosion of the vivid gleams and glows of the world around him, like a constant rainbow, shining not after the rain but during.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#13

“Attractive murderers were always good kissers; she was pretty sure she’d heard that expression before.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#14

“Adulthood should be illegal.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#15

“I’ll remind you that, at your bequest, I haven’t actually killed an intern in several months.” Evie shook her head hopelessly. “Sir, I hate to belittle your successes, but there are people who go their entire lives without killing anyone.” His face remained serious. “How dull.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#16

“He was ruined.
But he loved her anyway.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#17

“His chin tucked on her shoulder, and he fully let himself settle against her. His body let out such a deep, contented sigh, it was almost a growl. Like it had been waiting for her, and now that she was here, it would only live half as what it had been before, forever waiting to be whole again.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#18

“A sudden, small squeak came out of her, sounding suspiciously like a sneeze. She looked up at him sheepishly.
He was a puddle on the floor, and every speck of dust in that room was his enemy.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#19

“He was happy… How positively vile.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#20

“That dream I had about the boss last night," she leaned closer. "It was dirty.

Giggling at the shock on Tatianna's face Evie spun back around, only to halt immediately in her tracks.

Swallowing a lump in her throat, her eyes as wide as saucers, Evie said, "Hello Sir! Any chance you'd like to add my head to the entryway?”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

tags: book-quotes, funny, humor, inappropriate-humor, out-of-context, villain

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#21

“A weak man pushes blame away from himself like a disease, to poison and spread over the rest of the unsuspecting world.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#22

“He never understood why people would say their vision went red from their anger. His vision was often the clearest and most colorful when he was feeling a powerful fit of rage.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

tags: anger, power, rage

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#23

“Sage…did you just call me cute?” She opened the door, a grin on her face.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#24

“She was everything he never deserved but longed for anyway.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#25

“But for now, he'd enjoy it and try to hold this memory in his heart until the day of his inevitable horrific death, which wouldn't matter because he's gotten to hold her.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

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#26

“I’m a cynic. And a cynic is a romantic who’s too scared to hope.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

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#27

“Trust people's actions, not their words. Don't love anyone who isn't ready to love you back. Let go of the people who don't hold on to you. Don't wait on anyone who's in no rush to get to you.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

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#28

“You make the people you care about feel like … He pauses. Like you want all of them. Not just the good parts. And that’s terrifying to someone who’s spent a lifetime avoiding those other pieces of themselves.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

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#29

“I don't think there's a right way to feel,' I say. 'And you can't control it, anyway. Feelings are like weather. They just happen, and then they pass.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

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#30

“And you did panic. Even though you didn't want to. And I did expect something, even though I tried not to."
"Good!" he half shouts. "Expect something! You want to put me on a hook? Put me on the hook. I freaked out, Daphne, but that doesn't mean I don't love you.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

tags: emily-henry, funny-story

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