Quotes About Unexpected

He didn't know it, but he had saved her, and hopefully he would never know the dire straits she'd been in when he met her. She had come to the Napa Valley to find a man like him. She had set her sights on Sam Marshall, but

What a day! She had gotten fired, sat in God-knows-what, got rained on, got caught in a traffic jam, been rejected three times, and, as if that weren't enough sponged on by a mooch of an alien knight who claimed he was protecting her from household appliances. Knight of a Trillion stars

Nora was eating a piece of cold duck with one hand and working on a jig-saw puzzle with the other when I got home. I thought you'd gone to live with her, she said. You used to be a detective: find me a brownish piece shaped something like a snail with a long neck. Piece of duck or puzzle?...

Asta jumped up and punched me in the belly with her front feet. Nora, at the other end of the leash, said: "She's had a swell afternoon—knocked over a table of toys at Lord & Taylor's, scared a fat woman silly by licking her leg in Saks's, and's been patted by three policemen.

Someone was tapping on the window.

dropping spiders

You came to a strip club with a woman who is not your fiancée, and a gorilla on your wedding day.

Horkman made a sound like a bullfrog trying to give a blow job to a buffalo.

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Unicycle?! came the quick reply. I'm diabetic!

And all this was before the bus hit the sheep.

This was uncalled for.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.—Stephen Covey

We have not one but two killers. And as implausible as it sounds, I don't think either one knew about the other.

Pine was normally a light packer, a one-suitcase sort of girl. But for this trip, she had brought a second small suitcase. She set it on her bed and opened it. She looked down at the oddball assortment of items carefully packed inside

she hadn't accounted for.

Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.

the bathroom. Really, Mr. Colville

Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

MR. YEE: Urgle. Urgle urgle. Splarg. Kaa. [Falls from chair.] MR. TINE JR.: Holy mackerel.

Gee," I say, "there are no sheets on this bed." The mouse looks at me. "Señor," he says, "if you sheet on my bed, I will keel you." We both laugh, and the mouse punches me in the arm.

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Come, thou tortoise!