Quotes About Surprise

What I didn't realize was this: It's never possible to be prepared when the future takes over from the past.

When you're in love, every day is like a present you get to open.

One of the best feelings in the world was finding something you were sure you'd lost forever.

melted milk chocolate; it's a roaring fire on a snowy night; it's a double rainbow; the green-glass barrel of a wave; the first sip of ice-cold champagne. And then…he arrives

had him pegged as one kind of person—he had just ended his second term on the Iowa City school board; he was encouraging his mother, Milly, to move into a retirement community but she was having none of it—he would pull out a surprise. Like the way he stroked behind my knee in a spot so sweet and sensitive, I had a hard time concentrating. We anchored off of Little Cinnamon because the cliff above was undeveloped so no one would be spying on us with binoculars

She looked like green rhubarb juice, and he had the expression of 'Damn!' all over him.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

It's always that way with periods of crisis: people you expect and want to be there for you are incapable and/or unwilling, and others you never imagined would be there for you show up with exactly what you need, exactly how you need it. And there is almost no way, alas, no way at all, to predict which people will be which.

I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head over heels, down, down, down until I splash into a stream. The icy water soaks through my clothes and bites into my skin. Why couldn't Elsa have had warm magical powers?

With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops.

I feel Elsa's arms around me. I can hear her crying. That's weird for a lot of reasons. Elsa doesn't cry, and she never puts her arms around me.

Zounds! What a howl from Griffiths and his brother!

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.

Angelo's description hadn't prepared Vincent for the reality of Kii. That serpentine shape emerging from camouflaging jungle triggered atavistic responses, an adrenaline spike for which his watch barely compensated. He took one unwilling step back anyway, shivering, and forced himself to pretend to be calm.

I blinked but managed not to glance at her, surprised as always to be reminded she was human.

It surprised him that his own voice came out a clear, resonant tenor, and not a thready pain-choked whine.

Carel, there's a unicorn eating your lily buds.

Oh, don't think we're all seriousness and stealth, Merlin.

His laugh smelled of juniper and loam, and Kit's confused expression showed; it made the little elf laugh the harder.

They laughed every time they accidentally looked at each other.

Rilriltok had apparently not expected to report to work and discover an enormous natural enemy next to its desk.

Katya, Lesa's surviving daughter, surprised the activity on the veranda, her glossy black hair braided off her neck, unhatted in the sun.

I had no idea that there were that many filthy insults available to the average speaker of Galactic Standard.

Everything this woman says surprises me.