Quotes About Unexpected

Illium seems far too pretty to be dangerous." Dmitri's male beauty, by contrast, was a darker, edgier thing. "No one ever expects him to take out a blade and slice off their balls," he said with lethal amusement in his tone as he drove them toward the George Washington Bridge. "He does it with such grace, too.

Where did you come from? I wasn't looking for you.

An intriguing mouse was Ms. Baird. Gabriel found himself interested, and he'd never before found a mouse interesting.

Fangs flashed in her face. "It's so nice when lunch has the manners to present itself on the doorstep.

But … no one had expected Kaleb to come hunting. No one knew they had taken what belonged to him. No one alive anyway.

Perhaps, for some, love strikes like lightning, but for me, it crept upon me like a thief in the night. A very handsome thief, who has quite stolen my once-lonely heart.

Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

So maybe they didn't get where they intended to go, but they ended up where they were meant to be.

I had believed I was coming to a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere, and what I had discovered was a murder right in my bookshop and then a nest of vampires who ran a late-night book club.

It's a story about the stuff that happens just exactly when you weren't expecting it; just on that night you thought nothing was going to happen, everything happens.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

What else could have happened? Car wouldn't start? House caught on fire? Escaped convict climbed through his bedroom window and tied him with duct tape? Poison eggnog? Or maybe I just didn't matter to him.

Awfulness can happen at any time. That's what's so awful.

I never meant to get so close to you. I never meant to fall in love.

Wherever you are in your story, as you turn to the Father, know that He is running toward you. There is always more of the Father's embrace awaiting you, and it can come when you least expect it.

Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.

Digo a meus alunos que isto é uma metáfora para a vida: seguimos pensando que nada será diferente, até o dia em que tudo muda repentinamente de uma vez.

Out of the blue and into the black

agarrou-o pelo braço, numa energia tão inesperada e viril, que ele se deixou dominar.

little later, a message arrived for the waiting troops. It was all off!

That even now, even after all the years of dreaming, of wanting, she is not Tristan, and she is not Jill, and she is not anyone who can recklessly seize unexpected opportunities.

Do you want to know how to write a song? Songwriting is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key - putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Like letting a small child in the same room as, I don't know, a Mongolian psychopath or something, and just sitting back and seeing what happens. Then you send in a clown, say, on a tricycle and again you wait and you watch. And if that doesn't do it, you shoot the clown.

Jack Daniels. Damn, she broke out the good stuff for him.