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Quotes About Unexpected

He's my hyung,' Baldspot said. 'I didn't know you had an older brother.' 'He fell off a garbage truck!' he said with a giggle. 'Well now, what can't you get from a garbage truck these days?' the woman chuckled.
~ Hwang Sok-yong
I'm doing fine. I eat dogs! Heh heh heh!' I
~ Iain Banks
I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ...
~ Iain Banks
Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or, as daisy says, like a Jane Austen novel. When player and listener together know the route so well, the pleasure is in the deviation, the unexpected turn against the grain. To see a world in a grain of sand. So it is, Perowne tries to convince himself, with clipping an aneurysm: absorbing variation on an unchanging theme.
~ Ian Mcewan
I, o Bože, voleo sam i ja nju. Bez obzira na to koliko sam mislio na Klarisu, u se?anju ili o?ekivanju, to što sam je doživeo ponovo, osetio i ?uo, ona neosporna ljubav koja je strujala izme?u nas, to zapravo životinjsko prisustvo, uvek bi me, mada poznato, uzdrmalo kao neo?ekivano.
~ Ian Mcewan
and Fred Tackett. Suddenly a figure appeared before them. They had a moment to take him in. Early twenties, bright pink face, stringy, short leather jacket. Perhaps he wanted money.
~ Ian Mcewan
Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork? Yep. Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork? Nope it's a pie.
~ Ilona Andrews
Oh, it's you, Curran's voice said quietly. I thought it was an elephant.
~ Ilona Andrews
Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. "I'm just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?" "Sure." Thirty seconds later, as I was flying through the air, I decided that this wasn't the best idea.
~ Ilona Andrews
Grandpa? Declan raised his eyebrows. We keep him in the shed out back, Jack said helpfully. So he doesn't eat dog brains.
~ Ilona Andrews
Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn't expect that. "That's it? That's your witty comeback?" "Yep." Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm sorry about the dinner. Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome.
~ Ilona Andrews
Oh no, is it naked time?
~ Ilona Andrews
Really, Luther, if I knew you were that hungry, I would've picked up some takeout." At the sound of my voice, he turned. "You!" "Me." "What is this?" He looked at Julie. "Mini-you?
~ Ilona Andrews
I didn't expect to sit here for hours. But if you're too hot, feel free to take the bra off." I gave him the finger. "What are you?" he asked. "I'm the woman you chained in your basement. I'm your captive. Your . . . victim. Yes, that's the right word. All of that education. How come nobody ever explained to you that you can't just kidnap people because you feel like it?
~ Ilona Andrews
Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.
~ Ilona Andrews
Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. "Hey, do you have any duct tape?" He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. "Coward," Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear.
~ Ilona Andrews
He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?
~ Ilona Andrews
Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'd managed to find a hobbit in the Caucasus Mountains. I wondered what he would do if I asked him about second breakfast.
~ Ilona Andrews
Kate& Derek "No, Kate, you don't understand. He vanished. He was there one moment and then he was gone." I couldn't resist. "Like a ninja. In a puff of smoke.
~ Ilona Andrews
Whoa'' . . . Leonard started. Cuddles reared and tossed her head. The vamp slid on the glass and she dragged him left. ''Whoa'' . . . She dragged him right. ''Come on!'' Cuddles kept turning and rearing, her huge body going up and down, jerking the undead to and fro like a cheerleader with a pompom.
~ Ilona Andrews
It's not funny. I've got a naked drunk vampire running around in my orchard.
~ Ilona Andrews
I can't wait to see a pack of bunnycats take down a wild hog with those short tiny legs. Wouldn't the boar be surprised?
~ Ilona Andrews