Quotes About Surprises

Yet in your stories, you must imagine all these things, not just because it will make the world of your story more complete, but also because the very completeness of the world will transform your story and make it far more truthful. As your characters move through a more complex world, they will have to respond with greater subtlety and flexibility; the constant surprises they run into will also surprise the reader - and you!

You can't go yet, not without telling us what all's happened to you since we saw you last. I faked amnesia, nearly killed Alan Turing, got knocked unconscious by a collapsing wall, faked my own death, and met the Queen. It's a long story, he said.

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.

A line from Bobby Bare's country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions: "I've never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woke up with a few.

I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

Part of being a parent is rolling with the punches, so consider an unexpected pregnancy the universe's way of helping you to learn to do that.

Just when we think we've figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. —Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

children being the enemies of plans and also the enemies of anything new besides themselves.

There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.

We can plan our work and work our plan; however, being organized and methodical will not protect us from the unexpected.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

He brought over a gold box and opened it. Inside were chocolates wrapped in foil. Billy sat down close to me. "Life," he said, "is like a box of bonbons. Some dark with chocolate filling; some with cherries. But you never know till you open the silver wrapper what life holds for you." He held my hand and squeezed it. I squeezed back.

Physics out of quantum equilibrium contains several surprises. One is that it becomes possible to send information faster than light. This is a consequence of another result of Valentini's, which tells us that while the system is out of quantum equilibrium, information and energy can be sent instantaneously, contradicting special relativity.

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

Life has so many surprises that the only real surprise in life is when nothing surprising happens.

while life is full of surprises, you can't leave any part of life out. Everything that happens to you happens to you. Often boring, sometimes exhausting, and occasionally thrilling, every moment of life is unskippable.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

In many ways, the story I'm about to tell you is not about romance at all. If anything, it is a story of life. Of how each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but that life rarely works out in the way we expect, and that our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways.

See, the human mind is kind of like...a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.