Numbly Quotes

#1. If deaths came in threes . . . he thought numbly. Who was going to be the third one?

J.R. Ward

#2. Ben sat numbly on the sofa at first, then walked into the kitchen

Diane Chamberlain

#3. Lucien shook Magnus off, who came over to Caia to make sure she was OK. She nodded numbly at her uncle but kept her eyes on the two males who looked ready to battle it out. And over her. Oh goddess it was like an episode of The Vampire Diaries, she groaned.

Samantha Young

#4. Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Cassandra Clare

#5. If this was a dick measuring contest, I found myself thinking numbly, then I was Pee Wee and she was John Holmes.

Jeaniene Frost

#6. Years later, when they were killed in a car crash on the Farm to Market Road, and the Nell-that-never-lived died with them, Olena, numbly rearranging the letters of her own name on the envelopes of the sympathy cards she received, discovered what the letters spelled: Olena; Alone.

Lorrie Moore

#7. He felt himself go cold as he suddenly realized what a dangerous game he was playing. So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorr.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. I could have sat on the children.

Thea Harrison

#10. So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.

Marci Shimoff

#11. How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5)

Clarice Lispector

#12. I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS wants the narrative to be is that they are the true Muslims.

Chuck Todd

#13. The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

John Cleese

#14. War? War is blood and shit and men maddened with pain calling for their mother as they bleed to death. There's no honour in it, boy." His eyes shifted, meeting Vaelin's. "You'll see it, you poor little bastard. You'll see it all.

Anthony Ryan

#15. mesmerizing them with his secret librarian powers.

Heidi Cullinan

#16. Princess, your temper tantrums make you as defective as an open-ended condom.

Gena Showalter

#17. This is the biggest damn IPod I've ever seen," Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. "Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.

Rachel Caine