Quotes About Surprise

Death is...usually doable, astonishing but plain.

Sometimes things work out differently than you expect, and sometimes that's when the best things happen.

Yes, I was surprised about her myself. I had always considered her to be proper enough, if somewhat light-headed. It shows how one can be deceived." "Because she was killed?" Caroline said with a lift of amazement in her voice. "Precisely.

I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.

as she pulled away the shirt and jacket like so much wrapping paper on a gift.

I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.

In a flash I saw the boy in the man's eyes. Only it could not be true. I could not have such luck. For the boy had beauty as bountiful as Bianca's. I did not count upon it.

When you call on les mystéres you don't always know what you're going to get.

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

I eat gaijin for breakfast… His words trailed off as Jilly came out of the house, in her pseudo-frock, her combat boots, her spiky hair and her young, young face. He just stared at her, motionless, as if someone had clubbed him over the head with a mallet. Jilly froze where she was, staring back at the exotic creature in black leather and bright red hair who'd invaded the garden.

This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it.

You can get an erection less than an hour after I've tried to kill you? she said in disbelief. Just how perverse are you? Let me show you.

To her surprise, Jilly appeared to have handed over the telephone and a moment later Taka ended the call. No, maybe it shouldn't surprise her. Jilly would have resisted bullying, but Taka's calm control was very…seductive.

He half expected another argument. A struggle of some sort. Again, a surprise. She made that soft, hungry sound that had already emblazoned itself in his senses, she put her hands on his shoulders, and she kissed him back, her tongue sliding against his.

She has. No. Plan.

She was reminded of rainy days in her childhood when she would resign herself to staying in, reading or watching daytime TV, and then in the afternoon the sun would break through unexpectedly and she would think, Oh. I guess I can go outside now. Isn't that…a good thing, I guess.

Just think how it would look if a reader walked into a café you'd recommended and found it taken over by vegetarians.

a car that wasn't familiar to her.

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

When you open a book," the sentimental library posters said, "anything can happen." This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone's way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.

Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

Anything can happen, and anything does;

What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love? We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake gourds at each other, to wake up; instead we watch television and miss the show.

Yeah, you should have seen your face. Actually, I should have seen your face. Stupid sneak suits.