Quotes About Surprise

It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi.

Waxillium had seen some odd things in his life. He'd visited koloss camps in the Roughs, even been invited to join their numbers. He'd met and spoken with God himself and had received a personal gift from Death. That did not prepare him for the sight of a pretty young woman's chest turning nearly transparent, one of the breasts splitting and offering up the hilt of a small handgun.

Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?" "Yes." Kelsier decked him.

Was…was that a cow?

For a second," Megan added, "I thought you were going to be forced into the bathroom there with me. Too bad. It would have been amusing to watch you squirm.

The comment quieted the room, like a sudden shout of "Who wants extra bacon?" at a bar mitzvah.

It's funny, Vasher thought, How many things begin with my getting thrown into prison.

Is it gonna take my breath now," Mizzy asked, "or, like, sometime down the road? I'd like to be prepared.

The enemy thinks he's won. But I want to see his face when he realizes the truth. Don't you? It's going to be delightful.

Like a highstorm, regular in their coming, yet always unexpected.

We brought company, I told her. All of it.

Well, I like sincere people," Shallan said, raising her cup. "It's delightful how surprised they look when you push them down the stairs.

Qué clase de cosas puedes romper? -De todo tipo. Puertas, dispositivos electrónicos, mesas... Una vez rompí un pollo. -¿Un pollo? -Sí, estaba de excursión. Me... frustré y cogí un pollo. Cuando lo solté, se le cayeron de golpe todas las plumas y, a partir de entonces, se negó a comer otra cosa que no fuera comida para gatos.

J'imagine qu'elle ne vous a pas interdit de laisser entrer d'écureuils dans le batiment ? - D'écureuils, Votre Eminence ? demanda la femme. - Excellent dit Chanteflamme

Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?" "Yes." Kelsier decked him.

She didn't want them reaching any disappointing conclusions-such as "Ransoms are usually bigger than rewards.

Shallan had not expected Jasnah Kholin to be so beautiful

Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.

Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips! I don't know him.

Disappointment takes a toll on us and our relationships. It requires considerable emotional bandwidth. Researcher Eliane Sommerfeld explains that we come away from the experience of disappointment feeling bad about ourselves and the other person. Our negativity is tinged with astonishment and surprise, and, at the same time we're trying to forgive, we're concealing emotions. We're trying to think positively and urging ourselves to move on. It's exhausting.

familiar grief—a grief we've come to know and understand and even integrate into our lives—can surprise us again and again, often in the form of anguish. This is especially true when something sparks shock and incredulity in us, like the letter that Carmen's mother had written to her.

THE MIDDLE OF nowhere just got a lot more interesting!

admiration —and surprise. It was nearly unheard of for a woman to hold property, he knew, even a woman of her rank and independence. "And you feel

You're so different—like a pretty rock that you almost step over because you assume it's the same as all the others. But then you pick it up and realize how lucky you are to have found it.