Quotes About Surprise

And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their offices would be a museum. A museum!

Il problema della vita è che puoi procedere solo alla cieca, in un'unica direzione. La memoria ha delle idee tutte sue; carpisce elementi da gni quando e cerca di metterli insieme. Ti sorprende da tutte le angolazioni, con tutto quello che sei venuto a sapere in seguito, e ti comunica le novità.

Il problema della vita è che puoi procedere solo alla cieca, in un'unica direzione. La memoria ha delle idee tutte sue; carpisce elementi da ogni quando e cerca di metterli insieme. Ti sorprende da tutte le angolazioni, con tutto quello che sei venuto a sapere in seguito, e ti comunica le novità.

Is your name really Romeo?" "No." "Oh." "It's Jean-Baptiste." "Oh." "Are you disappointed?" "No." Talk about snappy dialogue.

You climb out of the train with all your shit, you're a little groggy, a little discouraged. You're not expecting anyone to be there, then boom! Someone's there after all, at the end of the platform, waiting for you. Haven't you ever dreamt that would happen to you?" "I don't dream." "I don't dream," she repeated in a macho tone. "I don't dream and I don't like a cocktease. May that be a warning, babe." He looked devastated.

me if I did!" ejaculated the coroner.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Are there weapons in a bookstore?" "It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. "I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.

I didn't find you, I tripped over you. If I hadn't, I would have walked right into them.

He felt as if he'd been chasing a rabbit that suddenly turned into a Grizzly. Something wasn't right about this. So many things weren't right about this.

If someone had told him a few weeks ago that he would befriend a human and care enough to watch over her at night, he would have laughed his tail off.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you. Take you out at the knees.

That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you.

Who told me this (apart from everyone?)- that a man takes his pleasure and gives only pain. That sex is a kind of punishment, and this punishment is perfect because it fits the crime so well. Here. This is what you get for wanting. Imagine my surprise. ...it was like being a plane all your life and not knowing you could fly. Dubliners talk to each other very easily. We talk as though getting back to it, after some interruption.

Imagery—the core of metaphoric language—will surprise, grab, inform, and persuade your listeners as mere explanation will not. Vivid

The nuns were still just one step behind her.

But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.

WHEN THEY SAT down to dinner, Hawksworth looked twice into his soup bowl—belly up, soft and white, tiny little feet, spiny back, sleepy eyes. "Excuse me," he said. "But there seems to be a hedgehog in my soup." "There you are, you naughty—" Beatrix's expression melted with love, and she smiled. "Oh, how cute. Nanny is having a nice warm soak.

Vivian, I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient I've brought you someone else's." "Rafe you jerk, this is a sheep's heart.

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough.

Yeah!" Iggy said, laughing. "We can all charge her at once! Like she turns to do something on the board, and we all go right then. Bbrrrrrrmmmm!" "She'd freak!" said Owen enthusiastically.