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Quotes About Surprise

Today I found a twenty in the red-lined pocket of my wool coat. There's no twenty-dollar bill in the red lining of my uterus.
~ Kim Addonizio
Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next?
~ Kim Harrison
My breath slipped from me, almost a groan. Trent Kalamack. The obscenely successful, smiling businessman, ruthless bio- and street-drug lord, elf in hiding, and pain-in-my-ass-extraordinaire Trent Kalamack. Right on schedule. Why is it you show up only when I need money?
~ Kim Harrison
Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give Trent his statue. Pow, you'll be naked! Jenks exclaimed. (Rachel and Jenks)
~ Kim Harrison
Damn it all to Disneyland! Where's crap for brains?
~ Kim Harrison
Uh, guys?" Jenks said, hovering at the window. "Fountain Square is on fire." "What?" I jumped to my feet and turned in one motion. Al rushed to the window, and we pressed our foreheads to the glass, looking down.
~ Kim Harrison
His eyes went past us to his kids as they descended upon the mouse, who had finally made a dash for the living room and found itself in its own personal hell.
~ Kim Harrison
Jenks watched for a moment from the rim of the bucket, then said, You look like a porno star on your hands and knees, mopping in your underwear. Push it baby he moaned. Push it!
~ Kim Harrison
You think?" I snapped, jumping when Newt slammed a side kick into the barrier, her robes swirling dramatically. Great, she knew martial arts on top of everything else. Why not? She'd obviously been around a while.
~ Kim Harrison
Por las bragas de Campanita!
~ Kim Harrison
What in Tink's contractual hell are you doing here?
~ Kim Harrison
What in Tink's knickers do you think you're doing!
~ Kim Harrison
Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. My life was so screwed up.
~ Kim Harrison
Son of a beaver biscuit…
~ Kim Harrison
No one in the movies ever looks up until the saliva starts dripping down.
~ Kim Harrison
Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his un-twice-steppable river and so on. So habits were not truly iterative, but pseudoiterative. The pattern of the day might be the same, in other words, but the individual events fulfilling the pattern were always a little bit different. Thus there was both pattern and surprise
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Que garantizar la seguridad y la prosperidad de la gente fuera bueno para la economía era una sorpresa muy grata para ellos. ¿Quién iba a pensarlo?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Each reality is followed by one stranger than the last.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.
~ Knut Hamsun
An intense, peculiar exhalation of light and colour emanates from these fantasies of mine. I start with surprise as I note one good thing after another, and tell myself that this is the best thing I have ever read. My head swims with a sense of satisfaction; delight inflates me; I grow grandiose.
~ Knut Hamsun
Men da tokayeren stod næsten urørt i glassene fik fru Julie champagne og frukt ind, druer, epler, fikener. Nei du store verden! Tænkte vel alle, og verten kunde endelig merke en snev av himelfaldenhet.
~ Knut Hamsun
Man reiser litt omkring, man flakker fra sted til sted og man har den skjebne å støte på mennesker igjen som man engang før har sett, møte dem plutselig, på uventede steder, så man av overraskelse ganske glemmer å ta hatten av og hilse.Dette treffer meg ofte, ja meget ofte. Det er det intet å gjøre ved (Dronningen av Saba)
~ Knut Hamsun
Hey Lucia, Pay up, suckah, Emma got dental with some dude.
~ Kresley Cole
When a group of young females had asked her what one should name her horse, she'd answered, I like the sound of Fellatio. When Rydstrom had confronted Sabine about it, she'd said, Do you know how priceless it was to hear that demoness sigh, 'I love my Fellatio'? Even gold can't buy moments like that!
~ Kresley Cole