Quotes About Surprise

I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and think Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan.

Wow. So you didn't expect it? No. Not at all. Were you like, 'Fuck!

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

You know, this always happens. Whenever I go away, I always think I'll come back to mountains of exciting posts, with parcels and telegrams and letters full of scintillating news - and I'm always disappointed. In fact, I really think someone should set up a company called holidaypost.com which you would pay to write you loads of exciting letters, just so you had something to look forward to when you got home.

I trail away into silence. I've just shared details of my condom use with my son's teacher. I'm not sure how that happened.

Trust Jess to get engaged all discreetly and not say a word. I'd have run straight in, saying, Guess what? Look at my pebble ring!

Becky -- he begins, and there's a tiny intake of breath around the churchyard. Will you-- Yes! Yeee-esssss! I hear the joyful sound ripping through the churchyard before I even realize I've opened my mouth. I'm so charged up with emotion, my voice doesn't even sound like mine. In fact, it sounds more like... Mum. I don't believe it.

Hören Sie genau zu, ich werde es nur einmal sagen. - Mit Grabestimme flüstere ich ins Telefon. - Ich organisiere eine Überraschungsparty für Lukes Geburtstag. Die Sache ist streng geheim, und Sie sind der siebte Mensch auf der Welt, der davon erfährt. Fast möchte ich hinzufügen: `Und jetzt muss ich Sie erschießen.´

How did I guess? From you . . . I mean, you look pregnant." "No, I don't! No one else has guessed!" "They must have. It's completely obvious!

There's silence, then the phone bleeps again with his reply: :) I stare in disbelief. A smiley face. Sam Roxton typed a smiley face! A moment later he sends a follow-up. I know. I don't believe it either.

gaze at it in bewilderment. How can something so perfect just be waiting for me? Did the Christmas-present gods see me coming?

We've always been that couple. Blended. Intertwined. We read each other's thoughts. We finished each other's sentences. I thought we couldn't surprise each other anymore.

I have never felt so mortified in my entire life. Ever. Jack Harper takes me to the grandest, poshest restaurant in the world. And I take him to a park bench in Clapham.

Of course! I'm far more used to working with a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Nimbus 2000." Trish peers at me in surprise. "Isn't that the broomstick out of Harry Potter?" Damn. I knew I'd heard it somewhere. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is," I say at last, my face flaming. "And also a well-known ironing board. In fact, I think the broomstick was named Ã¢â'¬Â¦ er Ã¢â'¬Â¦ after the ironing board.

Happy Birthday Dear Samantha From Us All. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. My throat is tight. No one's ever made a cake for me in my life before.

One becomes weary only of what is new.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.