Quotes About Surprise

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

Life is funny; it really is.

I'm not looking for love," she tried to explain."If it comes my way, that makes it twice as special.

I wanted to tell you both that I'm leaving for Korea," Megan announced. "In about half an hour." Evan's jaw dropped and Doug froze in his tracks. He turned around slowly and plastered a smile on his face. "Finally," he said. "Yeah, well, before I go, there's something I want to say to you guys," Megan said. "Famous last words?" Doug asked sarcastically.

Can I paint you?" Finn asked. Megan blinked. "Okay, that's basically the last thing I ever thought you were gonna say.

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: OMG OMG OMG I KISSED FINN! I KISSED FINN! OMG I KISSED FINN. WHERE ARE YOU!!!???

He pressed his forehead against mine, stared soulfully into my eyes, and smiled. I smiled back and was about to drag him inside my room, when his smile turned to a grin and he chuckled. Then he guffawed, and seconds later he was leaning against the wall, holding his stomach, laughing and begging for mercy. So much for the famous unruffled calm of the British secret agent.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

It was dangerous to think you'd seen it all. It tempted fate to throw something worse in your face.

Nor am I saying that English conversation codes do not allow men to express emotion. English males are allowed to express emotion. Well they are allowed to express some emotions. Three, to be precise: surprise, providing it is conveyed by expletives; anger, generally communicated in the same manner; and elation/triumph, which again involves shouting and swearing. It can thus sometimes be rather hard to tell exactly which of these three permitted emotions an Englishman is attempting to express.

his shoulder and ducked into the cave. He called, "Honey, I'm home!" I crept closer to the mouth of the cave. A terrible damp smell came from inside. I took a last breath of fresh air and plunged in after Typhon. In the dim light I spied a second monster. She was big, but nowhere near Typhon's size.

By the Lord of Hell's hairy balls!

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

One doesn't expect a falcon to pull a plow, or a butterfly to cook your breakfast.

What if . . . you come to the wild and discover that it is not wild at all? What if half the world is here before you?

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

It could be that the best thing is something different from what you expect.

It is not the sort of place where one would expect to find a witch. But a witch did live there, though she is not buried there.

With software, you know what you have to do," he said, "but it's always a big surprise how long it will take." Miller

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.

Embeth looked at the return address. It was from her most faithful friend, Shipment Fulfillment Center.