Quotes About Surprise

He smelled of cloves and pipe tobacco and had a twinkly look about him as if he were going to toast muffins or read a particularly good story to her, but instead he beamed at Ursula and said, So, I hear you tried to kill your maid? (Oh, that's why I'm here, Ursula thought.)

A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.

The world was beautiful. It surprised me, how beautiful it kept on insisting on being. In spite of all the lies, it was beautiful.

Holy unanticipated occurrences!

Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?

It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.

It's not even that I bump into things. It's more that things leap out of nowhere and bump into me

you never know what's going to happen next. It keeps you on your toes. That's what Granny says. And it's important to be on your toes because you just never know what might happen next in this world.

I made you something

The miraculous happened every day. Sometimes it did not happen. But still, we expected it. Even when it didn't happen, we were expecting it. We knew the miraculous would come.

YOU'RE GOING TO VACUUM UP THAT SQUIRREL!

There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"?

To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

Franny Block, sitting on the floor behind her desk. "Miss Franny?" I said. "Are you all right?" "A bear," she said. "A bear?" I asked.

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene talked to him, everything has seemed so boring, so pointless. But now, the stories Nellie told struck him as the most important thing in the world and he listened as if his life depended on what she said. It made him wonder if some of the mush from the ocean floor had gotten inside his china head and damaged him somehow.

all of a sudden

And he knew, suddenly and absolutely, that the baby he held in his arms was his sister, Adele. When

If one does not hope one will not find the unhoped for, since there is no trail leading to it, and no path." —HERACLEITUS OF EPHESUS

He was always surprised more people didn't break under the assault of hours of self-aggrandizing orations delivered in pompous monotones.

They'd agreed no more surprise ingredients, either, though Gus wasn't entirely reassured, and settled on a menu of pancakes with fruit compote and fresh whipped cream, Spanish omelet, and a wonderful blood-orange mimosa.

the gun went off, some dogs howled and

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.

Antes de que ocurra nunca sabes cómo va a ser una cosa realmente.