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Quotes About Surprise

It's not really wine," he said. "It's Diet Coke. And if anyone ever serves you brown wine with a foamy head, send it back.
~ Jennifer Echols
And then my mom called, "Have fun on your date, Hayden!" Another step down and I thought, Good.Mom is mistaken and has led Nick to believe I'm going on a date. One more step down and I thought, Oh no,Mom has led Nick believe I'm going on a date!"
~ Jennifer Echols
Tell me about your project." "It's a surprise," I said loudly over the siren. "I don't like surprises." No surprise there.
~ Jennifer Echols
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.
~ Jennifer Egan
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
~ Jennifer Egan
Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?' "'It happens, Jules.
~ Jennifer Egan
There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't.
~ Jennifer Egan
I rang the bell. When it was clear that no one was home, I opened the door and went in.
~ Jennifer Egan
He was sliding into the city's knotty entrails, a poor, untouristed area where the sound of flapping laundry mingled with the bristly chatter of pigeons' wings. Without warning, Sasha pivoted around to face him. She stared, bewildered, into his face. 'Is that?' she stammered. 'Uncle—' 'My God! Sasha!' Ted cried, wildly mugging surprise. He was a lousy fake." (p. 213)
~ Jennifer Egan
Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!" Dee shrieked. My eyes!
~ Jennifer L. Armentrout
I didn't think I would end up here." "Me neither.
~ Jennifer L. Holm
I sense that the chocolate chips have hit the fan.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
What the elf, Avery? What the everlasting mothing-foxing elf is going on there?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I had my knife in hand before I realized I'd reached for it and had kicked open the...front door before it ever occurred to me that it might have already been unlocked.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Personally, I find this turn of events delightful," Max declared. "But you look like a motherfaxing deer caught in motherfaxing headlights.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Before I could get the word daughter out, Grayson leaned his head down and crushed his lips to mine. He kissed me to save me from what I'd been about to say. For a small eternity, nothing in the world existed outside of that kiss. His lips. Mine. For show.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
To my surprise, Brooke smiled, and I realized that even though two of the other teams had managed to bug their marks' cell phones, the information Tara and I had received might just prove it self to be even more useful. Take that Chloe!
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Your eyes surprise me every time I look into them and they're looking back at me. Your mouth surprises me, because you always seem to smile more with one half that with the other, like part of you knows a funny secret that none of the rest of us, not even your other half, can guess.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
What in the world had I done to attract the attention of the FBI?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
had spent a lifetime treating me like an afterthought, if that. I hadn't seen him in more than a year. But now that I'd inherited billions? There he was.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Xander raised his hand. "Anyone else wondering if we have a secret uncle out there no one knows about? Because at this point, secret uncle just kind of feels like it belongs on the Hawthorne bingo card.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Today's your birthday, too.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Fancy meeting you here, Heiress." "You," I told him, "are the most annoying person on the face of the planet.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Het hoofd van mijn beveiliging deed met getrokken pistool de deur open. 'Ook hallo,' zei Thea droog.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes