Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

this old woman, who had weathered so many storms and become as gentle as water,

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

You should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear...If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends.

She seldom bothered taking revenge. Time did that for her, eventually.

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about.

Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

She was not shocked; it seemed to her that every woman had a right to arrange her life as she liked, when she was alone and free in the world. For her own part, however, she had never given way to such ideas; her sense of right and her healthy nature naturally maintained her in the respectability in which she had always lived.

He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise

He could tell that the other expected him to be surprised, but it was not in him to be surprised because it was no more surprising to him when things did not fall out as they were supposed to than when they did.

But then I’m not easily shocked. I’ve had several friends who drowned or got murdered or died in weird accidents. In Alaska you get used to strange stuff happening.