Quotes About Surprise

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Bad things happen when you least expect them

You were an outstanding athlete, Griff, but a sorry excuse for a friend. I guess that's why I'm surprised, and slightly offended, that you would come to me now, like we'd been good buddies, and ask for my help.

What they had most feared had happened, and yet what lay ahead was a wonderful plan they could not have imagined on their own. God had things well under control.

left my box of cubicle gear in the trunk, stashed like a dead body. I pasted on a smile and walked into the house. My mother was just hanging up the phone and looked exultant. "Guess what?" she said.

I expect you to get up in the morning, the rest is a surprise!

What we think is impossible happens all the time.

That moment, the music screeched to a halt. There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion—trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion.

Cracker Jack!

And, to our collective surprise, it turned out that for a person who doesn't like people, I'm pretty good at this customer service stuff.

He stands up, slowly, and puts his hands on the zipper of his jeans, where I notice there's a bulge that looks like someone stuck a cucumber in his pants. That can be his...thing, can it? He undoes the button then his fly and then slides his jeans down. He's wearing those tight boxer-briefs things, like that guy in the Calvin Klein commercial, and I realize, it's definitely not a cucumber.

It was just one of those things, I said, You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

Say what you will, but you're never prepared for the surprise attack.

Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began.

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.

There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

That was just it. You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.

My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he replied. Shoot in two weeks I met my future wife changed my entire life's trajectory and bought my first tie. You bought a tie I asked. Because honestly this was the most shocking part.

But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So... ... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool, I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means? The apocalypse?

Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.