Quotes About Unexpected

If I'd known I should meet a damn bear, Jamie said, grunting as he lifted another stone into place, I would have taken another path.

People plan their reading? Takes all kinds… Books just find me. They converge upon me like flocks of benevolent vultures. They follow me home, wagging their tails. I'm pretty sure they breed in the dark, too, like mushrooms. When I finish a book, I pick up whatever looks most appealing from the tottering piles at hand.

I, ah, I wasn't expecting—" I said idiotically. Brianna gave me a grin to match her father's, eyes bright as stars and damp with happiness. "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" "What?" said Jamie blankly.

It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.

I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.

Do not forget to entertain strangers," Buck said in the same language, "for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

To my surprise, it was Lord John. But a Lord John I had never seen before. He was not so much disheveled as shattered, everything in order save his face. "What?" I said, deeply alarmed. "What's happened?

I relaxed my grip on the knife; she could hardly attack me with a lapful of goat.

and soaked us both. I've

I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage." My

There must have been some sound that made me look up, but I wasn't aware of having raised my head. John Grey was standing in the doorway of my room. His neckcloth was missing and his shirt hung limp on his shoulders, wine spilled down the front of it. His hair was loose and tangled, and his eyes as red as mine. I stood up, slow, as though I were underwater. "I will not mourn him alone tonight," he said roughly, and closed the door.

Oh, God, John!" he said. I stopped dead, halted much more by the tone of that voice than by the words—it was broken with an emotion I had seldom heard from him. Walking very quietly, I drew closer. Framed in the half-open door was Jamie, head bowed as he pressed Lord John Grey tight in a fervent embrace. I stood still, completely incapable of movement or speech. As I watched, they broke apart.

wasna expecting the Spanish Inquisition," she said, a little testily.

To have the injured husband regard him calmly and say merely, "Oh? Why?" was not merely unexpected but Ã¢â'¬Â¦ infamous. Absolutely infamous. "Why?" John Grey repeated, incredulous. "Did you say 'Why?' Ã¢â'¬Â "I did. And I should appreciate an answer.

incongruous that he laughed. And then realized that there

What happened, she says! Aye, what indeed? I tell ye to stay all snug below wi' Marsali, and next thing I ken, ye've dropped out of the sky and landed at my feet, sopping wi' blood!

We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not.

I became a children's author by accident.

I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.

I never thought I would be divorced.

I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!

Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.

I never dreamed that I would be autographing Playbills.

I would have never ever dreamed of my career playing out the way it did.