Quotes About Surprise

Cute. Who is she?" "The devil." "Really. I thought the devil would be taller.

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out, heroes arise in the most unexpected places.

Mockingbird sometimes found it hard to believe this was the same man she'd married; he looked like a different person now—as if someone had put a fire hose up his ass and inflated him with meringue.

Nature always gets the last word. That's not my line. I read it in a magazine article written by a rock climber. His point was that nature is as coldhearted as it is beautiful, and that forces beyond our understanding can deliver a random life-or-death surprise at any moment.

At heart Chaz Perrone was irrefutably a cheat and a maggot, but he had always shunned violence as dutifully as a Quaker elder. Nobody who knew him, including his few friends, would have imagined him capable of homicide. Chaz himself was somewhat amazed that he'd actually gone through with it.

Ellis dutifully opens the top half of the bisected lid... and there's Jimmy Stoma. All things considered, he looks pretty darn spiffy. Better, in fact, than he did on some of his album covers. He's so lean and fit, you wouldn't guess he once outweighed Meat Loaf.

Satan follows me through the door, flops down on the rug, and farts.

I fell down the stairs. What happened to your hair?" Raven's face purpled. "I don't know what you mean.

The final puzzled look on the man's face suggested that he was not expecting to be gored by a giant stuffed fish head.

The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea...

We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: "He was in much better health than we expected." Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.

Often, it is the least likely among us who is in a position to accomplish the most.

They were his family, but even your family could be alienated by discoveries they were not prepared for.

But nothing was permanent; all things must change. And no matter the beliefs of some and the wishes of others, life had a way of surprising you.

of what waits just around the next corner.

He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and given Kahlan a quick kiss. Her eyes went wide, and she didn't kiss him back, but the feel of her lips shocked him into realizing what he had done. Oh. Sorry, he said. She laughed. Forgiven.

Better to see the dangers in the world and be ready when someone inevitably turns on you. It is a far preferable surprise to find that a person is kinder than you think, than to discover he is secretly a traitor.

Surprise was their greatest weapon. He didn't want to give it up without a very good reason.

The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.