Quotes About Surprise

For a twist to work, it needs to be (1) unexpected, (2) inevitable, (3) an escalation of what preceded it, and (4) a revelation that adds meaning to what has already occurred.

Go ahead and break the rules, flip expectations, twist the story world around backwards—as long as it's in the service of your readers.

The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

I had to keep checking the copyright page to remind myself this novel [Karl Moritz's Anton Reiser ] was published in 1785, not 1985.

4. You've had enough of the big city and decide to return home. Waiting for a bus, you pick up a discarded copy of Larva and, because you have a long bus-ride ahead of you, begin reading. You quickly discover it is not a conventional novel. Do you: (a) discard it and stare out the window all the way back home? (b)

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

I put instant coffee into the microwave. I almost went back in time.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there.

I spilled spot remover on my dog; now he's gone.

You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like that all the time.

I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates".

I woke up this morning and discovered that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica. I told my roommate, "Isn't this amazing? Everything in the apartment has been stolen and replaced with an exact replica." He said, "Do I know you?

I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to surprise his wife with flowers, it baffled him. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. He'd never seen Kim and J.P. kiss, let alone argue.

His glamour never fails to surprise me; it is always as if we are meeting for the first time.

I had not observed her for several months, and look what had happened.

Why do you have to develop a sense of loyalty now? It is tiresome and unexpected.

Shemyaza's caress effectively stemmed the argument around them. All eyes turned towards Shem with indignant surprise. There were times and places for dalliances with human dependents, and a meeting of the Parzupheim was not one of them.

I had always believed marriage to be as my parents portrayed it, something safe and staid. With you, that will not be so.