Quotes About Surprise

Previously it had appeared to be simply curious about her but now it reared up on its hind legs again and let out a hoarse and awful roar that chilled Liv's blood. Dear God I'm about to be eaten by a blue alien teddy bear, she thought wildly as it came toward her. What the hell are they going to put on my tombstone? Here lies Liv, Without a care She died from the bite Of a teddy bear. Okay, so maybe she wasn't completely sober yet but she was completely terrified.

you don't know what life is. One day you're going to run into a brick wall.

Sunrise, it was revealed, could learn any song after hearing it once. In fact, she could just sort of imagine how a song would go. It was shocking each time she was right; it was shocking in the way that certain musicians just plunk out the melodies, chords, and all, and can't even read music, never "learned," just know.

And when Jacaranda would drop by his studio unannounced and Shelby would open the door for her, his eyes would clear from the cloudiness they'd fallen into while thinking of his work; his eyes would see her, and his face would light up, he'd smile, and he would cry: "You're here!

Twelve years old. I was happy. My friend had a Ouija board, asked when we were going to get our periods, looked down, and I saw blood.

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.

My wife and I have been happy for twenty years....Then we met!

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.

You're robbing the cradle, then," he said. Humor filled his face. "You're a cougar." Laughter burbled out of me, part of it relieved nerves, the other part surprise at the play on words. "I'm not that kind of cougar," I said, my tone lofty.

Holy Necrophilia, Batman

I stopped humans to talk about the weather. I wasn't the chatty type, but their surprise at my noticing them seemed odd. I always noticed -- the way they moved, the way they smelled -- I just didn't engage in useless conversation. Even now. This convo about the weather was important because the weather was not acting like itself.

The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas.

From Farbod Mimeh at LCG this morning: "With markets having already priced in a rate increase, a surprise decision from the Fed could spark major volatility and panic for equities." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dangers-of-getting-cocky-ahead-of-interest-rate-decisions-2015-12-16

You never know when the devil might come calling.

Then he jumped up and shouted.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Listen. Sarah wore a black wig that could have easily been mistaken for your own hair. You told me she said the rapist went wild after he pulled off the wig. Of course he'd become unglued. At that point he realized that he had the wrong woman.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Poesía es la unión de dos palabras que uno nunca supuso que pudieran juntarse, y que forman algo así como un misterio.

Ella viene vestida Con un traje de alcaldesa, De papel de chocolate con los collares de almendras. She comes dressed In the robe of a Mayoress Made of chocolate paper with an almond necklace. El viento vuleve desnudo la esquina de la sorpresa, en la noche platinoche, noche que noche nochera. Naked, the wind turns the corner of the surprise in the silver-dark night the night benighted by nightfall.

La suerte viene a quien menos la aguarda.

Realmente ella era una persona muy equilibrada. (Aunque a veces, bajo las más grandes apariencias de equilibrio encontráramos las locuras más sorprendentes o los misterios más inescrutables.)