Quotes About Surprise

White-water rafting and scuba diving were not part of his plan for convalescence.

I didn't think places like this existed outside films.

You never know what will happen, when you fall from a great height.

Nie w??cza?a muzyki - s?uchowego odpowiednika przechadzania si? po polu minowym. Cz?owiek my?li, ?e ju? jest dobrze, gdy nagle jaka? wa?na dla niego piosenka druzgocze go bez ostrze?enia.

He was met by a collective shriek as the brides parted like biblical waves around him.

I stared in disbelief at the little oasis of calm and beauty that had been created from my barren rooftop.

Crees que sabes lo que te espera —una noche horrible delante de la televisión, bebiendo en un bar, escondiéndote de tu pasado— y, de repente, te desvías del camino y acabas en un destino que no sabías que estuviese allí.

I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned it to be so much more than he had expected.

tell me...the best thing that has ever happened to you.' 'The best? Oh, I'm kind of hoping it hasn't happened yet.

When he saw the contents of my MP3 player one afternoon, he laughed so hard he nearly dislodged one of his tubes.

I stared at them. 'Every time what?' I said, as Nathan put the money into Will's hand. 'He said you'd be reading a book. I said you'd be watching telly. He always wins.' My sandwich stilled at my lips. 'Always? You've been betting on how boring my life is?

He feels a brief pang that something so major has happened in her life without him knowing.

It felt like I was living a life I hadn't had a chance to anticipate.

Now it feels like living with her is a series of small explosions, like he never knows what is coming next.

My face felt like it had just been rammed into a brick wall . . . because it had.

The author and screenwriter William Goldman says that "the key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the way it expects.

She came around the corner and all of a sudden I understood it: all love is sudden.

When they reached her door, Clay leaned in for a kiss, and Swint closed her eyes to give him one back. Then came a series of loud thudding sounds—and no kiss. When Swint opened her eyes, Clay was lying on the ground at the foot of the stairs in a tangle of long arms and legs. Clay had fainted. From the bottom of the stairs, he looked up sheepishly at Swint. "Ain't nobody gonna believe this," he said

America's phones are bliss. Their habit of actually working is very disconcerting: Put in a coin, and speak to whoever answers. I truly hope it catches on everywhere.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was twenty-one. Everything since then has been a bonus.

the gruesome opposite of tearing into gift wrap.

What was so funny before?" I asked. "When…? Oh," she said. "The look on your face." "My face?" "Like you showed up to prom and your best friend had on the same dress." "Is that it." "Pretty much." "Marcia Marcia Marcia.

It all came back to something I'd figured out once about the detective business. There were two ways to go along: underground or on top. I never found out which was best. Underground you had the element of surprise on your side, but it was harder to move around. On top you went everywhere, taking cracks at everybody, and everybody taking cracks at you. You had to be tough to play it that way. Well, I was tough.

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.