Quotes About Astonishment

The slime looked about for Mandrake. If things were bad for me, they weren't too sunny for him either. To my astonishment, I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing, not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

What shall you do?" "I shall continue to explore—the astonishment of living!

No, si ya se sabe. Siempre aparece alguien que no te esperas para nada.

It was as if the unassuming little fellow had all these months been concealing a blunderbuss beneath his coat, and now he rose and suddenly revealed it to the rotund North, who sat there aghast and goggle-eyed, fingering his slingshot.

Sur terre, ce ne sont pas les occasions de s'émerveiller qui manquent, mais les émerveillés.

Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!" "Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.

Oh, it's Applekit!" Cinderpelt yelped in mock astonishment. "I thought for a heartbeat there was a giant burr chasing me. Never mind. When we stop, I'll help you untangle them.

Blade's jaw dropped

who still looked as if some cat had hit him over the head with a dead pigeon.

I've never seen before

I saw a Vacancy sign in a brownstone on Lexington Avenue, rang the bell, the door swung open, and there she was: a squat, middle-aged woman with a purple velvet bow perched on her raven-dyed hair and a look of delighted astonishment on her face. She was encased in a dress of iridescent taffeta; on her feet, over her stockings, she wore tan socks and over these—high heeled patent leather pumps.

Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. "Again I didn't win? But last year I didn't win also!

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.

Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.

The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

He was sure that police box hadn't been there before.

Your own life is terrifying, but life is an unending astonishment.

There was a flash, a roar and, for Hayes at least, an unwelcome surprise. The force of the blast lifted him clean off the deck and hurled him into the water, from which he emerged, concussed and bedraggled, minus his pipe, shorts and pants. March-Phillipps's men were astonished by the spigot's power. Not many weapons could relieve a man of his underwear.

After all, he liked me. That was a claim he could never fail to honour because it astonished him.

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this.

catch me with an unexpected result

I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'

The sky above the Sarajevo valley had never been so open and bare as on that winter night, in a city without electricity. We stood and stared upward in astonishment, and my friend Ivan said, in his long, drawn-out Belgrade accent: "The staaarry sky above us, and moraaal laaaw within us!