Quotes About Surprise

Mary Pope Osborne

Just then something fell from above. "Watch it!" said Jack.

When Jack looked up, he saw the woman had pulled off her wig. It was a boy dressed up as a woman! "See, even she's a boy," said Annie. "That's weird.

Just then, a shout came from the lookouts' nest: "Iceberg ahead!" Jack and Annie turned back to the window—just in time to see a huge iceberg looming out of the sea. The iceberg was dark with a fringe of

She reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a silver watch on a chain. "This is a gift for both of you," she said.

Suddenly, the front of the ship dipped down into the sea. Deck chairs started to slide past Jack and Annie.

Ahhh!" Jack screamed and fell back into the canoe. The

Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

I don't want you to say, 'This is gross.' I want you to say, 'I thought this would be gross, but it's really interesting!' Okay, and maybe a little gross.

So she looks in her rearview mirror," one is saying, "and there's a bear in the back seat, eating popcorn.

What may not be expected in a country of eternal light

One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture.

Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.

You have no idea how they will respond to you.

Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

My moose," she said in a low voice. "I finally got it. The universe paid me in moose.

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

One of them hung a pink bra from our lighting fixture. I left it there. It was a nice bra

She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.

It's us, Stephen said. Oh, thank God, said a voice. Callum emerged from behind the Dumpster. Even with all that was going on, it was hard not to take notice of this: he wore only his underpants and his socks and shoes. ...I don't think I hid my staring very well either. Go ahead and change, Stephen said, handing me the bag. I'll go and get the car. Please be quick, Callum added. This is not as fun as it appears.

I dumped out the bag and found what had been inside was a bunched-up police uniform, complete with the vest. Where did you get this? Boo asked. It's Callum's, he said. What's he wearing? At the moment, not much of anything. Put it on. I noticed Book perk up a bit at this piece of information.

Nate, she is back - what are you doing? Janelle said. She's back! Janelle bounced on the balls of her feet a bit. I'm hugging you with my mind, he replied. I'm awkwardly accepting your hug in my mind, Stevie said.

Then I noticed his rising blush, and I realized something. Tobin and Angie . . . their togetherness was new. New enough that being touched by her still came as a glorious, blush-worthy surprise.