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Quotes About Unexpected

I finally got my knight in shining armor. Too bad he was a teenage werewolf
~ Ilona Andrews
Life had tried to kill me in all sorts of ways lately, but falling off of a flying horse was a new and unwelcome development.
~ Ilona Andrews
He wrapped me up like a package. I couldn't move an inch. "I thought you were some sort of maniac!" I growled. "I am." "What are you doing here?" "Looking for Jim in your bed." "He isn't here." "I see that.
~ Ilona Andrews
The top bag popped, and a metric ton of old lasagna spilled onto my pants. The stench of soured spaghetti sauce washed over me. Ew. Of all the trash from this whole giant building, I had to step on a bag from the food court. Damn it.
~ Ilona Andrews
Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother. "What?" "She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!" "Take a picture for me," Grandma said.
~ Ilona Andrews
She looked at Mad Rogan. What did you do? Mad Rogan opened his mouth. She turned to me. What did he do? He got hit by a car, I said. The woman turned to me. What kind of car was it? An armored Escalade, I said. Well, at least it was a nice car. She turned to Mad Rogan. Who would want to ruin their nice car by hitting you with it?
~ Ilona Andrews
Where did you find this charmer ? Linus asked me. In an abandoned mall. He followed me home.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nothing kills a party like an oversized metal hedgehog.
~ Ilona Andrews
Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.
~ Ilona Andrews
You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail," Derek said.
~ Ilona Andrews
I was still pissed. "What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.
~ Ilona Andrews
I clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. For some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than I had expected, and I fell and crashed with a thud.
~ Ilona Andrews
He wore the expression found on people who have died in an accident, in a matter of seconds, without having had time to be afraid or suffer.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
The morning brought the crisis of my life. But it was not anything that I could have conceived of in my wildest imaginings.
~ Iris Murdoch
What happened after that, and will be related later, was something entirely unexpected and so awful that Ludens had never spoken about it afterwards to anyone.
~ Iris Murdoch
We naturally take in the catastrophes of our friends a pleasure which genuinely does not preclude friendship. This is partly but not entirely because we enjoy being empowered as helpers. The unexpected or inappropriate catastrophe is especially piquant.
~ Iris Murdoch
Suddenly, as if by the fiat of a wicked fairy, he had been utterly dispossessed.
~ Iris Murdoch
The had met at a party. Falling in love surprised them both.
~ Iris Murdoch
Life can be sudden.
~ Iris Murdoch
and he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Re the temperature of Venus's surface No one had expected such a hot Venus
~ Isaac Asimov
deus ex machina
~ Isaac Asimov
estoy a punto de lanzar todo mi peso contra una puerta y encontrar que está abierta de par en par.
~ Isaac Asimov
Wann immer ich vom Leben den Status quo erwarte, taucht etwas ganz unerwartetes auf. Die Weltgeschichte ist aus dem gleichen Teig gemacht wie Semmeln. Hauptsache, sie sind frisch.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer