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Quotes About Surprise

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
~ Ludwig Bemelmans
When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: I wish you luck. I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me. And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bolts of Melody, with more than six hundred unknown poems by Emily Dickinson, took the public by surprise in 1945.
~ Lyndall Gordon
Wait for it,' the single dash seems to whisper, with a twinkle if you're lucky.
~ Lynne Truss
Everything's all fun and games until someone gets an ax in the chest.
~ Lynsay Sands
Her wonderful, sweet, perfect, fairy-tale romance had turned out to have a twist. Prince Charming was a bloodsucker.
~ Lynsay Sands
He too had recognized the three faces pressed to the window as the coach had sailed past. He shook his head as the Radnor carriage rode out of sight around the next bend. It had been Suzette, Christiana, and Lisa, all gaping out the window at them. I did tell you they would not take our leaving sitting down, Langley pointed out, sounding amused. You didn't say they would follow, Daniel said dryly. Langley laughed and shrugged. Why spoil the surprise?
~ Lynsay Sands
What the devil happened to you? Richard asked with amazement as he led Robert to the bed. I was shot, Daniel said. Richard frowned, but Robert snapped, It was probably the Fates punishing you. Punishing me for what? he asked with surprise. For breaking Suzette's heart, he growled. She was crushed when she got your letter.
~ Lynsay Sands
If Brinna is your daughter, they really were three French hens after all." She opened her mouth to explain about the day she had found Sabrina, Brinna, and Joan in a huddle, and the comment she had made about "three French hens…
~ Lynsay Sands
But what popped up was no girl.
~ Lynsay Sands
Do ye often howl at wolves? Only Lovey, Claray answered. He's the only wolf I ken. Ye ken Conall, and he's the Wolf. Aye, Conall agreed aloud, and then leaned down to whisper by her ear, And ye howled for me on our weddin' night. Hopefully this night I can make ye howl again. Finally. Claray stiffened in surprise and then felt heat suffuse her face as his hand crept up her waist where it was resting, and his thumb brushed over the bottom of one breast.
~ Lynsay Sands
was suddenly in a panic.
~ Lynsay Sands
Here! Aye, but where the hell is---? Oh. Claray peered over her shoulder to see the Wolf staring at her from some ten feet away. His gaze was fixed on her lower legs with a sort of heated interest that made her look down. It was only then that she realized that she was holding her skirts rather high. They were actually halfway between her knees and her nether region, leaving an indecent amount of leg on view.
~ Lynsay Sands
Basically, it seemed to him that when it came to life, you just had to roll with it and wait to see what happened next.
~ Lynsay Sands
Where did your clothes go?
~ Lynsay Sands
I was attacked? I thought I just ran into a tree." "Aye, ye did," he acknowledged. "But when yer squawking woke me up, someone was chasing ye." "Squawking?" she asked with affront. "I do not squawk, husband." His mouth worked briefly and he turned away for another pseudo cough, but then nodded solemnly. "I meant scream. When yer screaming woke me up." "Hmmm
~ Lynsay Sands
Don't forget to be silly, don't forget to take something away from this whole experience, and don't forget to stick something up your sleeve.
~ Macaulay Culkin
A ridiculous old age is perhaps the saddest and ultimate surprise human nature may have in store.
~ Machado de Assis
O coração humano é a região do inesperado, dizia consigo o cético subindo as escadas da repartição.
~ Machado de Assis
Love is the one surprise.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
but I still held my breath waiting for Brünnhilde to rise up out of the pyre at the end. And then, instead of a beautiful maiden emerging from the flames, there rose up a great fat
~ Madeleine L'Engle
home early, Liam?
~ Maeve Binchy
She barely got to the bathroom basin in time to throw up. Louis and this girl, this girl whom he knew had been sent to his hotel by Lena.
~ Maeve Binchy