Quotes About Surprise

For all the things we've seen... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it?

Still, it was better than being trampled by teddy bears.

Maybe we could put this off until I do something more impressive than puke on a suspect who shit all over the interview room. We could, but seriously, how are you going to top that?

never underestimate the power of the American public to utterly shock and disappoint you.

Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

Why do you look like cheese, Beka? Nestor asked me quietly. We've got help. I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.

The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. And I've been thinkin' you forgot me, he said, placing her on her feet once more. Just look at you! Tan and fit and wearin' the clothes of a Bazhir- Alanna looked up into his friendly hazel eyes and broke into tears.

Charter boats are like books with no covers.

As they looked at each other, the woman and her daughter, they were not privy to what else the elderly lady had bequeathed. The pretty little bow-tied presents soon to be delivered to all the remaining assistants in the shop. Which each contained the turds of dogs and other, even more prolific, animals.

Dusk came to the third day and killed it with a blue sword. Always it was the same, and the day, always taken by surprise, never escaped, but bled and swooned and shut its eyes in blackness.

A moment more and the cherubic pest had sprung out on her from a stand of mulberries.

Cyrion, escaped prey, stood immobile, the sword free of its sheath and poised, almost delicately, in his right hand. His face betrayed only the mildest surprise at what was before him, a being surely minted in hell.

Discretion doesn't really apply to giant, flying, fire-breathing lizards who very nearly removed my fucking eyebrows

Here's what I love about travel: strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep--more tender less jaded--than you were when you woke up.

Excuse me," she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!

All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up. Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.

Was this happiness? Happiness had come to him on a bare, rocky island, without any kind of warning. He hadn't done anything to bring it about. He could even make sharp-witted remarks.

Hey. You know what the shark said to the clown?" "No." "You taste funny.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say: Wow, I never thought of it like that before!

I turned and saw her—the beautiful woman who was either a Fury of a totally different kind than any I'd imagined, or an angel.

Startled people look up With sheeps' heads Then go on eating.

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.

Sometimes—there's God—so quickly!

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.