Quotes About Surprise

Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

You know that look a cop gives you when he's so confused that he doesn't even know how to respond? If you don't know that look, it means you haven't had enough fun in your life.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

You don't know where life's gonna take you. Sometimes it takes you getting carried out of a club and then into a booth as an apology for it.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

Oh my god, two days ago I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. Tonight I find out she's insane

The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would.

Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than anyone else in the world loved you too?

Clever readers, of course, would already have seen through the entire thing, and for them the ending would lack surprise. But Harriet knew from experience that the pleasures of having guessed it all, with the concomitant pleasure of feeling clever, would make up for that as long as matters were not humiliatingly easy to guess.

With you i found myself. You are the one i was waiting for, when i didn't even realize i was waiting. -dr. Emma Sinclair-

I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.

On at least one other occasion, Oswald had told the officers that, if he could not locate Abt, he would consult the American Civil Liberties Union. He had also declared that he was a member of the ACLU. Will Fritz, surprised, asked how much Oswald had paid in dues, and the prisoner told him five dollars.

That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.

Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost a lot of its punch.

Watch your step," said Slash. Jig stopped, fully expecting to be shot, poisoned, crushed, or maybe all three at the same time. "What is it now?" Slash pointed to a pile of brown, slimy goo in the center of the tunnel. "Hairball.

Isaac, tell your girlfriend she can't bring weapons into holy-shit-your-spider's-on-fire!