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Quotes About Unexpected

What just happened?" Amy said. "We were in a ninja fight," Dan said in amazement. "For the first time in my nonvirtual life. And I hated it.
~ Peter Lerangis
The old lady told us Do not wake Ruhan', Jake replied, but who knew Ruhan was a chimpanzee? Apparently I said something that sounded like 'I ate your bananas' in Estonian.
~ Peter Lerangis
he'd come up from Bradford to see the band. I didn't know him, but he was
~ Peter Robinson
I had this dream in which I was having a cocktail party, and it was in a big room. I was standing at the door saying hello to people, and Jeffrey Dahmer walks up and I say, 'Oh Jeffrey, please go on in, it's right in there.' And then I say to myself, I just put Jeffrey Dahmer in a room with all my friends.
~ Peter Straub
The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn't hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.
~ Philip K. Dick
I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
~ Philip K. Dick
Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it.
~ Philip Kerr
Then in a dazzling moment the black form of the spy-fly hurtled out of the tin and crashed hard into the monkey's face.
~ Philip Pullman
In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise.
~ Philip Pullman
She was genuinely startled. Will had appeared out of nowhere in order to help her; surely that was obvious. The idea that she had come all this way in order to help him took her breath away.
~ Philip Pullman
Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.
~ Philip Roth
All this, this luck – what did it mean? Coming so suddenly, and on such a scale, it was as baffling as a misfortune.
~ Philip Roth
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
~ Philip Roth
Here, she said. This is for you. I didn't really get you anything, I sputtered. I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and-- Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.
~ David Levithan
Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.
~ David Levithan
i am so freaked out, you could pull a clown out of my ass and i wouldn't be at all surprised.
~ David Levithan
Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.
~ David Levithan
When I saw you today -- I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of the waiitng rushed through me in a second. That's something .... but I don't know if it's certainty.
~ David Levithan
I gotta go. The gingerbread men are on fire.
~ David Levithan
I didn't mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can't erase it. I can't ignore it. I have lived my whole life like this, and you're the thing that has made me wish it could stop.
~ David Levithan
As if that in some way made it better, that fate hadn't planned it weeks in advance.
~ David Levithan
Fate has a strange way of making plans,' I agreed.
~ David Levithan
In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass—rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual to find a situation that appears without word, or a place that was not known to be on the road.
~ David Levithan
Wierz?, ?e du?e zmiany w ?yciu przychodz? niezauwa?one; nie spodziewamy si? ich nawet na chwil? przed.
~ David Levithan