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Quotes About Surprise

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.
~ Dean Koontz
With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.
~ Ebon Moss-Bachrach
I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!
~ Erin McKeown
Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.
~ Freddy Adu
Emancipor stood in front of the small bush,listening to the birds chirp to greet the morning whilst he emptied his bladder. "Look wel on that yelow, murky stream, Mister Reese—" The manservant started at the voice beside him. "Master! You, uh, surprised me." "Thus reducing you to a trickle.
~ Steven Erikson
By the Lady's never-sucked teats!" "Elas Sil!" "Oh shut up! I'm a woman, I can curse about things like that. Wait, it's not as dark up ahead. Come on, and hasn't that baby of yours been asleep a long time? You sure it's not dead?" "Wel, it peed on me halfway down that last corridor, and last I looked it was smiling." "Huh. It ever amazes me women get talked into motherhood.
~ Steven Erikson
It may come as a surprise to many humans,' Adam said, and there was a new tone to the disembodied voice, 'but the assumption that an alien civilisation is interested in reaffirming the artificial hierarchy you have imposed upon yourselves is invariably the first one requiring readjustment.
~ Steven Erikson
When I Ascended, Lady, it was to escape the nightmares of feeling…" He grimaced. "Imagine my surprise that I now thank you for such chains.
~ Steven Erikson
My God," Hadrian said. "They finally did it! All those oh-so-cute-my-cuddly-kitten-here's-a-pic bastard! They finally went and did it!
~ Steven Erikson
Light exploded behind Felisin's eyes as she sprawled sideways.
~ Steven Erikson
Errant's horse-humped earhole, what the fuck is this?
~ Steven Erikson
The end,' Senior Assessor said, 'is never what you imagine. Be comforted by that, my friends.
~ Steven Erikson
Shock registered in Baruk's face.
~ Steven Erikson
Felisin ducked as something winged past her, leaving in its wake a musty, dead smell.
~ Steven Erikson
It's fucking raining dragons.   Quick
~ Steven Erikson
Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest
~ Steven Erikson
Sure. He came expecting to find two brains and found barely one.
~ Steven Erikson
Death's precipice, whether first glimpsed from afar or discovered with the next step, was ever a surprise. A promise of the sudden cessation of questions, yet there were no answers waiting beyond. Cessation would have to be enough. And so it must be for every mortal. Even as we hunger for resolution. Or, even more delusional: redemption.
~ Steven Erikson
With no expectations anything can become.
~ Steven Farmer
The girl behind the counter was incredulous at the sight of Halston in a tuxedo and Elizabeth Taylor in nightgown and mink coat in a White Castle at five in the morning. "Pardon me," the girl asked, "are you really Elizabeth Taylor?" Taylor said, "Yes, I'm fucking Elizabeth Taylor. Now where's my ketchup?
~ Steven Gaines
The opportunity to die was everywhere, and it just wasn't surprising when that opportunity became an event.
~ Steven Galloway
Boom. I jumped.
~ Steven Gould
Finding Louisa in her drawing-room was like discovering a kitten in the cupboard--not necessarily unwelcome, but still startling.
~ Steven Harper
In one of the paradoxes of storytelling, readers want to predict how the story will end (or how it will get to the end), but they want to be wrong.
~ Steven James