Quotes About Surprise

The toughest guy I ever ran into had cheeks that needed a brassière.

hung up and went back out to the car and told Fred: "A new era has begun. The earth has turned around and started the other way. Mr. Wolfe has left home in a taxicab to work on a case." "Huh? Nuts." "Nope. As Fritz says, honest for God. He really has. So if you'll—" "But Jesus, Archie. He'll get killed or something.

but I knew from long experience that you never knew when you were going to run up against someone with as many feet as a centipede and all of them reluctant.

Every other way is like that -- him waiting for something to happen to him, daring somebody to do something nice such as come up and touch him just so he could say, 'Why in the world did you do that?' and hold on tight till whoever bothered him vanished -- and nothing about him since has ever surprised me.

On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant doll's houses.

Something good is just about to happen.

With an utterly foreign sense of desperation, he did something that he'd never, in all his thirty-three years, thought he would do. He tripped her.

Obviously I was going a little too fast, but as I came around a sharp bend, I encountered a car going even faster. I was only conscious of a long, sleek shape hurtling directly at me.

Bob's yer uncle, miss," she said.

I tore off the brown paper wrapping from the large parcel and found myself looking at my own face. It was so startling that I almost dropped the picture. It was even more startling when I read the inscription: "Joanna Langley. 1749–1823.

You should have seen the look on your skull...

You know, the first two, I probably should've seen coming. The leprechaun costume? Not so much.

Hi Haley. look, I found all these free swords. They were in my spleen.

My eyebrows went past my hairline. In fact, I have not located them since. I think they are hiding behind my ears.

discovered a new position for intercourse (turned out to be a minor variation on Old Hundredth; Freddie snorted and shook his carrotty curls) to a recipe for chocolate sour cream waffles in cannabis sauce.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.

Who of late for cleanliness,Finds sixpence in her shoe?

Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.

Whoopsidaisies!

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

Events that come on tiptoe often change the world.

window. All the ruckus, of course, woke up everyone in the house. Lilly's room was right up there. She