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Quotes About Unexpected

he could manage. Ms. Silver happened to be walking by
~ Kevin Henkes
This bottom-up overturning was also not in anyone's 20-year vision. No web phenomenon has been more confounding
~ Kevin Kelly
Things were supposed to be easy for her but her last week had definitely not been that.
~ Kevin McLaughlin
Everyone stopped talking and turned to her except Rider, who proceeded to shatter his teacup with his fork.
~ Kevin McLaughlin
All of the sudden
~ Kevin O'Brien
I'm not even supposed to be here today.
~ Kevin Smith
On the bus to St. Louis, a man with a ukulele stood in the aisle and offered to play requests. Someone shouted out, "Freebird," and the man sat back down, visibly angered
~ Kevin Wilson
Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.
~ Kim Gordon
Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.
~ Kim Harrison
A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel's End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there's the punch line.
~ Kim Harrison
Unexpectedly, she took several trotting steps and then threw in a couple of feeble attempts at bucking! She felt good enough to try and play! ... Instead of slowing down, she broke into a very awkward canter, punctuated by all sorts of goofy attempts to throw her heels up. I couldn't help but laugh out loud at her faltering display of joyful rejuvenation.
~ Kim Meeder
It was us, I thought. Jamie and me. We had fallen down a rabbit hole, fallen into Susan's house, and nothing made sense, not at all, not anymore.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
What the devil are you doing here? (Morgan) I am sitting in a most uncomfortable chair. (Serenity)
~ Kinley MacGregor
How will we find your friend Ioan?" Adara asked. Before Christian could respond, a man was thrown through an open doorway and went sprawling before them into the street while raucous laughter, taunts, and insults rang out after him. Two more men quickly joined him in the street. They all lay on the ground, groaning. "I think we found him," Christian said with a hint of amusement in his voice. -Adara & Christian
~ Kinley MacGregor
Heard from whom? (Lochlan) From me, you worthless lickspittle. So tell me what miracle dragged the three of you from your holes and got your lazy hides all the way here. And a day early, no less. (Sin)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Jeg hadde ikke fått se noe grønt, men du verden for en begivenhetsrik dag.
~ Kjell Askildsen
All of a sudden Yutaka realized he had created a cloud of dust all around him. Oh no! No! This sucks. This blows more than your mama! Hey, now's not the time to come up with stupid jokes!
~ Koushun Takami
There was a little smile on his mouth—the mouth that had been kissing hers. Otherwise, he was incommunicado. "Liam?" she said again, more loudly this time. Nada. He was out cold. Down for the count. She straightened abruptly. Face was burning, joints buzzing with adrenaline, chest filled with helium. Liam Murphy had kissed her. And he'd fallen asleep in the middle of it. She didn't know whether to burst into song or kick something.
~ Kristan Higgins
Now that I thought of it, perhaps whacking the burglar wasn't quite…necessary. It occurred to me that he said "Hi." I thought he did, anyway. He said hi. Do burglars usually greet their victims? Hi. I'd like to rob your house. Does that work for you?
~ Kristan Higgins
Sometimes, your life shatters when you least expect it. Car accidents, lost pregnancies, divorce, loneliness. People you loved could disappoint you, and other people came through when you never expected it. And sometimes, happiness just rains down on you out of the clear blue sky.
~ Kristan Higgins
you can plan so that nothing goes wrong in life. But something will, and it won't be what you expected to go wrong. So make sure you're with someone who will help you bail the water out of the boat, not someone who will blame you for the hole.
~ Kristin Billerbeck
Life is full of bad surprises.
~ Kristin Billerbeck
No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
La fisica del XIX e XX secolo si è scontrata con queste domande ed è incappata in qualcosa di inaspettato e sconcertante, assai più del fatto, in fondo marginale, che il tempo passi a velocità diverse in luoghi diversi. La differenza fra passato e futuro - fra causa e effetto, fra memoria e speranza, fra rimorso e intenzione - nelle leggi elementari che descrivono i meccanismi del mondo non c'è.
~ Carlo Rovelli