Quotes About Surprise

The corners of his lips picked up. "You really didn't know I've been following you for the last five weeks?" Yeah, please feel free to make me feel stupid for that, Ken doll. I shook my head. "Well, of course not, because if you knew someone was watching you, you probably wouldn't have given yourself a spanking on the roof." And just like that, the man turned the humour back on. Weird. - Chapter 3: Heather and Brendan

I can't believe you came all this way, No one ever did anything like that for me before.' His eyes bored into her. 'No one ever loved you the way i love you, Susie.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin--" "Oh, good Gad," shrieked Inspector Cuff.

Against the odds, the Beast had shown her true beauty. He had shown her it was okay to feel lost and made her realize how desperately she had wanted to be found. She had learned that things were not always what they seemed, that people could surprise you. He had given her the one thing she had always longed for - something more.

Love doesn't always make sense...or happen the way you expect.

And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.

I thought you were going to— you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home.

It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us.

People could surprise you. Not just their kindness, but also their sudden ability to express things the right way.

How did you ever know? You never knew anything, and anyone who thought they knew anything - well, they were in for a great big surprise.

So she way awake at night and at times there was a curious peacefulness to this, the darkness warm as though the deep violet duvet held its color unseen, wrapping around Pam some soothing aspect of her youth, as her mind wandered over a life that felt puzzingly long; she experienced a quiet surprise that so many lifetimes could be fit into one.

Walking down the sidewalk I thought how my mother had never said I love you to me, and I thought how Chrissy had been going to call the baby Lucy. She loved me, my daughter! Even knowing this, I was surprised. In truth, I was amazed.

When word came that Keith had died of cancer, Abel was astonished. That astonishment had to do with death, with the wiping out of a person, with the puzzlement that the man was simply gone.

could not believe that I was sitting in the sky, and I had to act nonchalant about it, and I tried to. But it was astonishing.

And he could not believe it. He really could not believe it. It was not unlike falling off his bicycle so many years ago when he was a child, the slow sense of something terrible happening, and the knowledge that there was nothing he could do about it. Watching the pavement come up to meet his cheek.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

I had to cast out a good many lines, though, before I got what I wanted, and when I landed the fish I did not for a moment suppose it was my fish. But I listened to what I was told out of a constitutional liking for useless information, and I found myself in possession of a very curious story, though, as I imagined, not the story I was looking for.

I had had my dreams of Venice. But nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Døra ble åpnet av en kvinne med unnselig utseende, og hun så litt forbauset ut da hun fikk se sin mann og en fremmed stå der med armene fulle av duftende planter. – Helvi, disse plantene tilhører denne mannen, og vi skal ha dem i klesskapet inntil han trenger dem.