Quotes About Surprise

Look out! He's got a daisy!

Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn't trust it. Often you couldn't even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.

YOU KNOW WHEN YOU SAID THAT SEEING ME GAVE YOU QUITE A START? Yes? I GAVE YOU QUITE A STOP.

We try to make guests feel welcome, said Dee, scuttling behind his desk. He pulled off his pointed hat and, to Vimes's amazement, put on a pair of thick smoked glasses. You had papers? he said. Vimes handed them over. It says here His Grace, the dwarf said, after reading them for awhile. Yes, that's me. And there's a sir. That's me, too. And an excellency. 'fraid so. Vimes narrowed his eyes. I was blackboard monitor for awhile, too.

You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree. One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.

OH. DRAMA. Oh, hell.

They carried sticks and wore white clothes with bells on them, to stop them creeping up on people. No one likes an unexpected Morris dancer.

HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN REDHOT ICE CUBE? THAT'S CURRY.

If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato

I dinna want to disappoint ye, but we's in a cellar right here, and it's full o' tatties.' After a while a voice said: 'So where izzit?' 'Maybe it's got the day off?' 'What's a demon need a day off for?' 'Tae gae an' see its ol' mam an' dad, mebbe?' 'Oh, aye? Demons have mams, do they?

That's how it goes, you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you.

squernt" ("the feeling upon finding that the previous occupant of the privy has used all the paper")

Imagine every moment being at one and the same time a distant memory and a nasty surprise and you'll see what I mean.

Vimes awoke with a noseful of camel. There are far worse awakenings, but not as many as you might think.

And, with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.

Pigbog wished he'd paid more attention to the Book of Revelation. If he'd known he was going to be in it, he'd have read it more carefully.

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.

Magia jednak ma w zwyczaju czeka? w ukryciu, niby grabie le??ce w trawie.

They come quietly—like a silent but deadly fart—and they get you before you can pinch your nose.

Susan's gotta poker, you know, it said, as if anxious to be helpful. WELL, WELL. INDEED. MY GOODNESS ME. I fort- thought all of you knew that now. Larst- last week she picked up a bogey by its nose. Death tried to imagine this. He felt sure he'd heard the sentence wrong, but it didn't sound a whole lot better however he rearranged the words.

She pressed her fingers to the woman's neck and felt icy skin. Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek. The corpse opened its eyes.

We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation,just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise.

We dream our dreams, she thought, and sometimes they take us places we never anticipate.