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Quotes About Surprise

I just sort of slid into it, like you'd go for a walk in the woods and fall into a crevasse and wind up in a cave full of rubies and emeralds.
~ Garrison Keillor
I am Abhorsen... He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, Father of Sabriel
~ Garth Nix
Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.
~ Garth Nix
unexpectedly get
~ Gary Chapman
Who can you surprise with your service this week? — Janet Graham
~ Gary Chapman
When we ask God to help us love, He can answer in ways that amaze and delight us. — Cindy Sipula —
~ Gary Chapman
God's unconditional love often sneaks up on us when we least expect it! — Ann Varnum —
~ Gary Chapman
about four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then because he knew. It had been a turtle.
~ Gary Paulsen
He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.
~ Gary Paulsen
Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And
~ Gary Paulsen
It must have been a snapper
~ Gary Paulsen
The thing with dying was to try to not die and make death take you with surprise.
~ Gary Paulsen
He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget—expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.
~ Gary Paulsen
Good fucking Christ. What is this, an iPhone?" He
~ Gary Shteyngart
TOGETHER WE'LL SURPRISE THE WORLD!
~ Gary Shteyngart
of a gentleman in dress-clothes, who had suddenly stood before them in the passage, without their knowing where he came from. He seemed to have come straight through
~ Gaston Leroux
Ti nejnevinnÄ›jÅ¡í, zasko?ení ve svém pokojném srdci, náhle blednou nebo se ?ervenají pod ranou, jež je zasáhne, napÃ…â"¢imují se nebo se hroutí, protestují nebo ml?í, když mají mluvit, nebo mlubí, když mají ml?et, nebo z?stávají klidní, když se mají potit, nebo se potí, když nemají - a vypadají pak najednou jako viníci.
~ Gaston Leroux
To his great astonishment, the door opened and Christine Daae appeared, wrapped in furs, with her face hidden in a lace veil, alone. She closed the door behind her, but Raoul observed that she did not lock it.
~ Gaston Leroux
I'm actually something of an aficionado in the waking up in strange places department. I've woken up in hay lofts, under a buttern churn, on roofs, in a choir loft (twice), under tables, on tables, in trees, in ditches, and half-pinned under a sleeping ox. One time in Bombay, I woke up to find myself lashed to a yak.
~ Gene Doucette
We just met and we're already doing heroin? I said. Seems sudden.
~ Gene Doucette
But I believe there is no difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.
~ Gene Wolfe
In childhood, one imagines that any door unopened may open upon a wonder, a place different from all the places one knows. That is because in childhood it has so often proved to be so; the child, knowing nothing of any place except his own, is astonished and delighted by novel sights that an adult would readily have anticipated.
~ Gene Wolfe
Spring surprised me, as she always does those of us who remain most of our lives indoors
~ Gene Wolfe
You have demons? Yes. That answer didn't surprise me, although how these demons connected with the movie was anybody's guess. Volkswagen demons, he said. You have Volkswagen demons? Yes. There. I said it. Happy now?
~ Geoff Nicholson