Quotes About Surprise

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

What is it?" I asked. "'The King in Yellow.'" I was dumfounded. Who had placed it there? How came it in my rooms? I had long ago decided that I should never open that book, and nothing on earth could have persuaded me to buy it. Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores.

But where did I come into the dream?" I asked. "You-- you were in the coffin; but you were not dead." "In the coffin?" "Yes." "How did you know ? Could you see me?" "No; I only knew you were there." "Had you been eating Welsh rarebits, or lobster salad?" I began laughing, but the girl interrupted me with a frightened cry.

Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Maybe it shouldn't surprise us that Buddhism, with all its early austerity, was founded by a man who, as a member of the ruling class, could presumably indulge his appetites fully.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

That night I didn't sleep a wink, said Norton in her letter, and it occurred to me to call Morini. It was late, it was rude to bother him at that hour, it was rash of me, it was a terrible imposition, but I called him. I remember I dialed his number and immediately I turned out the light in the room, as if so long as I was in the dark Morini couldn't see my face. To my surprise, he picked up the phone instantly.

A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it," said Espinoza.

Cuando la vi me costó reconocerla. Había engordado y su rostro, pese al maquillaje, exhibía el estrago más que del tiempo de las frustraciones, cosa que me sorprendió pues yo en el fondo nunca creí que Clara aspirara a nada.

No os lo vais a creer, pero ayer por la noche, a eso de las cuatro de la madrugada, vi en la tele una película que era mi biografía o mi autobiografía o un resumen de mis días en el puto planeta Tierra. Me cago en la hostia santa, el susto que me dio casi me hizo que me cayera del sillón.

I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. "We're supposed to be celebrating our two-week anniversary tonight." "Uh, news for you, honey - two weeks is no anniversary." "What should I tell him? I don't even want to go." "Tell him you just got a new bra and it's shy around strangers.

Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

Surprise!-FitzChivalry

When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things.

She closed her mouth. The abruptness of the kiss and Tats's assumption that something had just changed between them took her breath away. She should have pushed him away.

Sweet Eda. Fitz, he has your face. Right down to the break in your nose." Amber cleared her throat. She spoke breathlessly into our shocked silence. "Fitz. Please. I can explain everything.

Coming up. A large tawny cat announced this to me at the same moment that he effortlessly elevated onto my lap. I stared at him in surprise.

I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.

I did not see you there I said. You never did replied Ketrikken.

Happy comes and goes, Tats. Loving someone isn't that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes. Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get a glimpse of the person and it all comes back again, in a big rush.

De todas las bromas crueles que me había gastado recientemente el destino, decidí que despertar era la más cruel de todas.

That's when she discovered that Todd had improvised on the menu she had made up.