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Quotes About Unexpected

He had never seen a gunshot wound. He kept asking what it felt like? dull or sharp? an ache or burn? My head was spinning and naturally I could give him no kind of coherent answer but I remember thinking dimly that it was sort of like the first time I got drunk, or slept with a girl; not quite what one expected, really, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way. Neon lights: Motel 6, Dairy Queen. Colors so bright, they nearly broke my heart.
~ Unknown
Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
~ Donna Tartt
Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?
~ Donna Tartt
Sometimes when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over
~ Donna Tartt
The description of shock and grief hot so close to home: but sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illuminated in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead
~ Donna Tartt
Z: "You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck." Phury: "That was you?" Z:"You think it was Santa Claus or some shit?
~ J.R. Ward
She was like his favorite candy - hard on the outside but a soft surprise on the inside.
~ Jaci Burton
Si todo parece ir según el plan, intenta encontrar algo que hayas pasado por alto y que podría mandarlo todo al garete».
~ Jack Campbell
Sometimes God's angel can be a big, burly man with tattooed arms. ~Mary Potter Kenyon
~ Jack Canfield
Many wonderful things in life do not come wrapped in the packages we think they should. God used a carpenter, not a king, to save the world.
~ Jack Canfield
leaders are born in crises and accidents happen when you least expect them.
~ Jack Canfield
Love can leave you nowhere in New Mexico raising peacocks for the rest of your life.
~ Jack Gilbert
Josy Barthel came first in the 1500m at the 1952 Olympic Games. This was a real triumph, as being from the tiny country of Luxembourg, no-one had expected him to have a chance - especially the band, who hadn't brought the music for Luxembourg's national anthem with them. They were forced to improvise, causing Barthel to put his head in his hands and weep.
~ Jack Goldstein
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
~ Jack Osbourne
Their sudden intimacy was like the explosive combustion that engulfs and consumes a moth that has fluttered too close to a candle flame; a completely unexpected turn of events that took both of them unawares and swept them irresistibly up and out of themselves as it hurled them into each other's arms.
~ Unknown
unaware of the fate around the corner.
~ Jackie French
And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.
~ Unknown
I didn't know it would be people you barely knew becoming friends that harbored you. And dreams you didn't even know you had - coming true. I didn't know it would be superpowers rising up out of tragedies, and perfect moments in a nearly empty classroom.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living.
~ James A. Owen
She saw Walter Starr, looking as if he were sure he was unwelcome. "Why, Walter!" she whispered, and hurried to meet him. He put out his hand, looking frightened, and said, "Mrs. Follet, I just couldn't ever…
~ James Agee
Came home to find the Sting CDs gone. Odd. He thought she must have taken the boom box into the kitchen to wash the dishes. But the boom box was also gone. He looked in the bedroom - the bed was stripped. He said aloud, "If the tampons are gone, you have left me." The medicine cabinet was bare.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
La memoria. Sacca piena di cianfrusaglie che rotolano fuori per caso e finiscono col meravigliarti, come se non fossi stato tu a raccoglierle, a trasformarle in oggetti preziosi.
~ Unknown
I have never associated myself with such an unexpected part of the body as the thyroid
~ Lydia Davis
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
~ Unknown