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Four of the best book quotes about to be shocked
01
Her fight for truth starts after only a few days spent shocked and hopeless in an emergency hospital in Herleshausen.
Gudrun Pausewang
author
The Cloud
book
every day life
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reality
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to be shocked
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fight
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emergency hospital
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teenagers
ᐧ
Germany
concepts
02
″...and the time she cooked a whole porcupine, with all its spines, who knows why, surely just to shock us when she raised the cover of the dish...”
Italo Calvino
author
The Baron in the Trees
book
Battista Piovasco di Rondo
character
porcupines
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cooking
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to be shocked
concepts
03
“He asked if Mrs. Krintuuth lived there, this shocked and surprised everyone as they knew that the mailman knew everyone on the island. He climbed up on a hill and gave the King the package.”
Michael Ende
author
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
book
Mrs. Krintuuth
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fairytales
characters
small fiction island
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to be shocked
concepts
04
“I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”
Nita Prose
author
The Maid (book)
book
Molly Gray
character
lies
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don't understand
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to be shocked
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truth
concepts
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