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Quotes About Unexpected

The God of Thunder has fallen into the milk pail!
~ Lois Lowry
I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)
~ Lois Lowry
And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
What do you most want for your birthday picnic, Admiral?" Taken by surprise, he answered honestly: "No casualties.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I was imagining the most bizarre things befalling you." "Did they include a six-hundred-pound ice bear and a pirate poet?" "No…" "Then they weren't the most bizarre after all.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Stop gibbering. The Countess took his arm, and began more-or-less frog-marching him upstairs. Roic made a mental note of her technique, for future reference. She glanced over her shoulder and gave Roic a reassuring, if rather unexpected, wink. The
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It wasn't fair, for people to go and change on him, while his back was turned being dead. To change without giving notice, or even asking permission.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
As Miles followed Ruibal out the door, he heard Illyan's voice, for a change more amiable than stressed: "Ivan, you idiot. What are you doing here?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Callan took a deep breath. "I never expected you." He shook his head with an edge of amusement. "You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler." "Naw, just a determined woman." She grinned against his shoulder. "I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.
~ Lora Leigh
In one hot afternoon in the Iraqi desert while he waited for the calvary to ride in and listened to the enemy get closer, he had found something he hadn't expected to find. There, buried in a hole, he had held a woman, and somehow that woman had slipped inside his soul.
~ Lora Leigh
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.
~ Lorrie Moore
If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die, what were you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over? There were so many ways of passing the peace, and you would never know what they would have been like, those roads not taken.
~ Louis de Bernieres
now– The door suddenly was opened! 
~ Louis L'Amour
When the shoes first fell from the sky,he remembered thinking that destiny had struck him. Now he thought so again. It was more than a coincidence. It had to be destiny.
~ Louis Sachar
Mushroom Surprise
~ Louis Sachar
Mac raised his hand. "Once I could only find one of my socks," he said. "Man, I looked everywhere for it! Under the bed, in the bathroom. You'll never guess where I finally found it." "In the refrigerator," said Bob. Mac's mouth dropped open. "How'd you know?" Bob shrugged. "Where else?
~ Louis Sachar
Laying her head on her arms, Jo wet her little romance with a few happy tears, for she had thought that no one saw and appreciated her efforts to be good; and this assurance was doubly precious, doubly encouraging, because unexpected, and from the person whose commendation she most valued.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes when we least expect it, a small cross proves a lovely crown, a seemingly unimportant event becomes a lifelong experience, or a stranger becomes a friend
~ Louisa May Alcott
Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessings.
~ Louisa May Alcott
She died instantly, said Kateri, implying she'd not had time to use a bookmark.
~ Louise Erdrich
Barton even reassured reporters that it had been unsought.
~ Ron Chernow
Neither he nor anyone else could have predicted that this overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate would be so ardent in battle.
~ Ron Chernow
So people surprise us. They can lie to each other, as my brother had done to me, and as I had lied to him that September evening at Panther Creek, and now it appeared those two lies could only lead to one imponderable truth.
~ Ron Rash
El trastorno psíquico es un súbito e inesperado rayo que te fulmina. Su devastadora llegada tiene cierta semejanza con los accidentes domésticos graves.
~ Rosa Montero