Quotes About Unexpected

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

Sometimes a mage would just up and hug him, then walk away. Once, a wizard he was talking to just started crying. That had frightened Beak.

No, in an existence bound with true meaning and purpose, oblivion should ever arrive unexpected, unanticipated and unseen. One moment racing full tilt, the next, gone.

Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the bliss of satiation, even as his spirit starves. No, Pearl did not hate. Life was a negotiation between the expected and the unexpected. One made do. Draconus

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The stranger's arm intercepted him.

It's fucking raining dragons.   Quick

The girl behind the counter was incredulous at the sight of Halston in a tuxedo and Elizabeth Taylor in nightgown and mink coat in a White Castle at five in the morning. "Pardon me," the girl asked, "are you really Elizabeth Taylor?" Taylor said, "Yes, I'm fucking Elizabeth Taylor. Now where's my ketchup?

Finding Louisa in her drawing-room was like discovering a kitten in the cupboard--not necessarily unwelcome, but still startling.

Emptiness where you wouldn't expect it speaks to you.

For a twist to work, it needs to be (1) unexpected, (2) inevitable, (3) an escalation of what preceded it, and (4) a revelation that adds meaning to what has already occurred.