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Quotes About Unexpected

Sometimes when you least expect it, hope wiggles into your heart.
~ Unknown
SECRET #42 You may not have to look very far to find more than what you were searching for.
~ Unknown
On having being just proposed to) 'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally. 'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly. That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.
~ Unknown
Our brains are always busy, even when we're not trying. They take all of the events and information of our days and try to make them fit together. Try to make sense of them. And now and then, two or three pieces of information fit together in an unexpected way. This is called "getting an idea.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
Once history holds your hand, it never lets go. But it has an anxious grip and takes you places you couldn't expect.
~ Lynne Tillman
I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!
~ Lynsay Sands
When there is an undoing of your life, there is an unknowing of every next millisecond. Every next breath. The peaceful predictability of what you thought would be your life is suddenly replaced by a very unexpected darkness and silence you aren't used to.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed, in all seriousness, 'The sentient lobsters!' How did we end up here? Did we make some mistake along the way?
~ Unknown
I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you're completely wrong about me thinking you're stupid. I always thought you could teach me things. I was always waiting. You're not like the others. You say things that no one expects you to. You think you're stupid. You want to be stupid. But you're someone people could learn from.
~ Unknown
But life is wakings-up, all unexpected, all surprising.
~ John Crowley
I could have listed maybe fifty possible reactions without coming close to the one I got. Her eyes dulled and her narrow nostrils flared wide and her mouth fell into sickness. She lost her posture and stood in an ugly way.
~ John D. MacDonald
Then she did something as strange, as shocking, as if she had thrown off her clothes. She smiled.
~ John Fowles
Fue como si me hubiera caído, desde el borde del mundo, al vacío. Un borde que apareció así, como de repente.
~ John Fowles
They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.
~ John Grisham
Sorry to disturb, but Scott Turow is on the phone.
~ John Grisham
Pacheco had entered her apartment with thoughts of a pleasant drink with a pretty lady. He left with Myers's courier bag and backpack and no clear idea of what to do next.
~ John Grisham
That's when it happened. So fast, in fact, that we didn't even realize it had happened. All we knew was that one instant we were sitting at a lovely outdoor table toasting the beautiful day, and the next our table was on the move, crashing its way through the sea of other tables, banging into innocent bystanders, and making a horrible, ear-piercing, industrial-grade shriek as it scraped over the concrete pavers.
~ John Grogan
A little after two in the morning, a bright flash lit the sky, followed by a huge explosion.
~ John Guy
But his admonition backfired spectacularly; the attempted sermon
~ John Guy
Not every collision course comes as a surprise.
~ John Irving
Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise.
~ John Irving
It had been a startling day for young Copperfield: most of the morning confined in an enema-bag carton; his first attempt at flight; his long fall through the weeds; and then sitting on that dead man's face.
~ John Irving
It was a deus-ex-machina world!
~ John Irving
Were those traveling businessmen, whom Alice solicited alone, ever confused by her intentions? The one lady who said she wanted a tattoo wanted nothing of the kind. Not only was she surprised to find a four-year-old in Alice's hotel room; she wanted him to leave.
~ John Irving