Quotes About Surprise

The worst blows, even when they're not intended to harm, are the ones we don't expect.

I had no idea things could taste so good! she exclaimed. This is all so delicious! Is she all right? whispered Queen Glamdis to Jack. Just crazy in a new way, Jack whispered back.

The woman shucked Matt out of his shorts before he knew what was happening and dumped him inside.

That was where [Lady Montdore's] charm lay. She would suddenly be nice just when it seemed that she was about to go for you tooth and nail, it was the charm of a purring puma.

I never saw Sauveterre again and it was to be many years before I even heard his name, but in the end I found myself adopting his little boy, so small is the world, so strange is fate.

That's what Gran always said. I'm too impatient. If you'd ever tried knitting, you'd understand." "I can knit," he said. Okay, that surprised me so much I choked on a sip of sherry. "Seriously?

Fate sure has a funny way of messing up our well-ordered lives." As

Leo and Soledad simultaneously gave out a sort of half laugh, half snort. It was loud, and it was relieved, and it broke the tension and caused Pierre to bark again, indignantly. All of which meant that neither of them heard it when Zach turned to Lucy in that same second and whispered: There's something else you need to know. I'm not just your friend. I am completely in love with you.

And the real surprise, for all involved, is that we are so much more than we have been told we are - that we long for more and in that longing have more company than we ever imagined.

Mum always told me that you couldn't know what people would do in a crisis, but I'd thought she just meant you should forgive people for behaving like weasels under bad circumstances, not that a stale biscuit like Khamis might suddenly come over all heroic in a tight corner.

And then he shoved me through the gate.

I swung my feet off the bed and got on my shoes, and then Liu opened the door and we all jumped back, because Orion was standing right outside like a creeper. He jumped himself, so it wasn't that he'd actually been planning to ambush me; I could only guess that he'd been standing there working himself up to knocking.

she didn't even have time to scream, just gave a startled "Oh!" and was gone

CUIDADO CON SU MASCOTA SECRETA».

I opened the door expecting to find something really horrible inside, and I did: eight freshmen, all of whom turned and stared at me like a herd of small and especially pitiful deer about to be mown down by a massive lorry.

One day soon it will stumble up the walk and knock, knock hard, and you will have to answer the door.

And then, in the middle of one of my blinks, she lunged. Her languid body turned into a missile.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

Y cómo me ves tú a mí? —Como un misterio. —Ese es el cumplido más raro que me han hecho nunca. —No es un cumplido. Es una amenaza. —¿Y eso? —Los misterios hay que resolverlos, averiguar qué esconden. —A lo mejor te decepcionas al ver lo que hay dentro. —A lo mejor me sorprendo. Y tú también.

Le destin attend toujours au coin de la rue. Comme un voyou, une pute ou un vendeur de loterie : ses trois incarnations favorites. Mais il ne vient pas vous démarcher à domicile. Il faut aller à sa rencontre.

Das Schicksal lauert immer gleich um die Ecke - wie ein Dieb, eine Nutte oder ein Losverkäufer, seine drei trivialsten Verkörperungen. Hausbesuche macht es hingegen keine. Man muß sich schon zu ihm bemühen.

Nothing is more surprising or frightening than what one already knows.

A veces le sorprendía mirándome desde un rincón con una sonrisa mansa, como si la mera contemplación de mi presencia fuera su mayor tesoro.

La pregunta me pilló totalmente de sorpresa, desarmado, y asustado por lo fácil que era perderle la antipatía a quien se tiene por enemigo en cuanto deja de comportarse como tal.