Quotes About Unexpected

If you cross an onion with a UFO, what you get is a flying saucer that brings tears to your eyes.

Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: "He was in much better health than we expected." Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.

A fast-paced, thoroughly mesmerizing thriller, If I Run offers distinct Christian undertones. Though not preachy, this layering adds to the complexity of this suspenseful novel. An enthralling read with an entirely unexpected conclusion makes the reader question if a sequel could be in the

Often, it is the least likely among us who is in a position to accomplish the most.

He didn't ask for any of this, did he? None of them did, come to that. Logan responded. But that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.

He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and given Kahlan a quick kiss. Her eyes went wide, and she didn't kiss him back, but the feel of her lips shocked him into realizing what he had done. Oh. Sorry, he said. She laughed. Forgiven.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them

People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? What duck? AH. SORRY.

Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer'n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter. How'd you know all that? I just trod on 'im.

I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel.

The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

I WAS NOT EXPECTING A NAC MAC FEEGLE TODAY, said Death. OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE WORN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, HA HA.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique. Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy.. Guild member? Not any more, sir. Oh? How did you leave the guild? Through the roof, sir. But I'm pretty certain I know what I did wrong.

Hah! said Granny Weatherwax. I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about...cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about...something else entirely, she added darkly.

Look out! He's got a daisy!

Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn't trust it. Often you couldn't even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.

the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation

Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the Sweet Judy on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly two, if you like parrots.

They carried sticks and wore white clothes with bells on them, to stop them creeping up on people. No one likes an unexpected Morris dancer.