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Quotes About Unexpected

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
~ Anna Freud
Love was destined and would strike as true as unexpected lightning on a clear day or never come at all.
~ Dean Francis Alfar
I fell in love with the most unexpected person on the most unexpected time.
~ Margott
Never expected to meet you. When I met you I never expected you to become my everything and more than I could have ever dreamed of.
~ Maria Ana Bulquerin
Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change you life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.
~ Ron Hall
"Once in a while in the middle of an ordinary life love gives us a fairy tale."
~ Unknown
I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
~ Phyllis Diller
It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's nearly full dark. We should go." "We? I thought you were going to leave me alone." "I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.
~ Cassandra Clare
It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.
~ Marissa Moss
And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.
~ Wendell Berry
It was something I might have prayed for, if I had thought of it, but it was not among the possibilities I had foreseen. It was just a good thing that came.
~ Wendell Berry
It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.
~ Wendy Mass
It was astonishing how quickly life could change, how the ground moved beneath you and the landscape you thought you were living in turned out to be entirely different. Like waking up after an earthquake.
~ William Boyd
Damn, damn, damn," as he felt something wet and warm puddle on his seat.
~ William C. Dietz
No defeat is made up entirely of defeat—since the world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. A world lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness .
~ William Carlos Williams
It's not four days ago I find a bastard squatting here, asking me if I read books. Like he would jump me with a book or something. Take me for a ride with the telephone directory.
~ William Faulkner
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
~ William Faulkner
And now Boon himself didn't know how to begin. He had prayed for luck, and immediately, by return post you might say, had been vouchsafed more than he knew what to do with. They have told you before this probably that Fortune is a fickle jade, who never withholds but gives, either good or bad: more of the former than you ever believe (perhaps with justice) that you deserve; more of the latter than you can handle. So with Boon. So all he said was, "Well.
~ William Faulkner
I felt like a punk who'd gone out to buy a switchblade and come home with a small neutron bomb. Screwed again, I thought. What good's a neutron bomb in a streetfight?
~ William Gibson
The nature of friendship is such that you never know who will turn out to be your friends, but once you have met them you can't imagine that you could have gone through life without ever knowing them.
~ William Gibson
They seem to have accepted that she's gone." "I don't see how they could be sure she is. But I wish we'd known. Could've brought some flowers." "Daedra never suggested this. It seems to be a surprise." "A surprise funeral? You do that, here?" "A first, for me.
~ William Gibson
Angie called pause again, rose from the bed, went to the window. She felt an elation, an unexpected sense of strength and inner unity.
~ William Gibson