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Quotes About Surprise

He texts back: I love you. I'm starting to text back, I love you, too, when my phone rings. It's Peter's house number, and I answer it eagerly. "I love you, too," I say. There is surprised silence on the other end, then a little laugh to cover it up. "Hi, Lara Jean. This is Peter's mom.
~ Jenny Han
How crazy, how thrilling that your whole life trajectory can change in just one night.
~ Jenny Han
John nods. "So I gathered a bunch of sticks and some flowers and I arranged them into the letters FORMAL? in front of your window. But your dad came home while I was in the middle of it, and he thought I was going around cleaning people's yards. He gave me ten bucks, and I lost my nerve and I just went home.
~ Jenny Han
But it feels like everything all around me is shifting in ways I didn't expect, when all I want is for things to stand still.
~ Jenny Han
I'm wearing a tuxedo." I nearly choke. "A what!" "A tuxedo. With matching Converse." "Over my dead body!
~ Jenny Han
Triumphantly he says, "Did you predict that, Lara Jean?
~ Jenny Han
Just you wait. As soon as you and I are done, he's gonna pull some cheesy-ass move and, like, profess his love for you with a boom box. I'm telling you, I know how guys think.
~ Jenny Han
What in the world? I stare at him, my mouth open. "I never said you had an STD!
~ Jenny Han
Look who's here. My adoring girlfriend.
~ Jenny Han
I see her car first.
~ Jenny Han
What would Peter and I do if I got pregnant? I can't even picture what would happen. All I can see is the look on Daddy's face when I tell him the news, and that's about as far as I get.
~ Jenny Han
Oh putain ! - Je sais. -Mais qu'est-ce qui t'a pris ? - Honnêtement ? Je n'en ai aucune idée. Ca m'est venu comme ça. - Putain, je ne savais pas que tu étais capable d'un truc pareil. Respect.
~ Jenny Han
And then he jerks his head towards mine, and he kisses me. On the lips. His eyes are closed, mine are wide open. And then mine close too, and for a second, just for a second, I kiss him back. Then I break away. I push him off. Triumphantly he says, "Did you predict that, Lara
~ Jenny Han
I think the perfect high school night will end up being some random little nothing moment that you didn't plan or expect; it just happened.
~ Jenny Han
Sure, you could go to the bakery and pick out the exact cake you want, but there is a thrill in not being sure what you'll end up with.
~ Jenny Han
Mama sewed the hole up straight away. I didn't even know she could sew. I almost didn't trust her with it because she'd had half a bottle of wine with supper, but she did a good job.
~ Jenny Han
Parece una tontería estar tan decepcionada por algo que sólo acabas de darte cuenta de que querías, ¿no? • capítulo 49, pág. 277
~ Jenny Han
I'm surprised by how fast the time goes.
~ Jenny Han
I still love you and that's a really huge problem for me and it's also a really huge surprise. I swear I didn't know. All this time. I thought I was over it.
~ Jenny Han
So what would you have asked for if you won?" He doesn't hesitate even one beat. "Your peanut butter chocolate cake with my name written in Reese's Pieces." I stare at him in surprise. That's what he would have wished for? He could have anything and he wants my cake? I give him a curtsy. "I'm so honored." "Well, it was a really good cake," he says.
~ Jenny Han
Abuse of power comes as no surprise.
~ Jenny Holzer
Reed: "What's up?" Vanessa: "There must be an accident or something." Reed: "I'm the accident." Vanessa: "I couldn't agree more." Reed: "What I meant was, those people out there are waiting for me.
~ Jenny O'Connell
One day in the Little Theater of Hurt Feelings the husband announces that he would like to try a separation. The wife is stunned. He has said nothing to her until now. But the shrink discourages it. "You might as well just get divorced," she says.
~ Jenny Offill
The car makes a clicking sound as it moves across the wooden slats. Then there is nothing beneath us and we fall. The windows fill with water, mud, leaves. The car floats.
~ Jenny Offill