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Quotes About Surprise

Rick, this is Faith's father, David." He couldn't drag his eyes away from David's neck. Because around it was a white collar. Jesus Christ, Faith McPherson's father was a minister!
~ Kathryn Shay
I don't know why I'm always surprised when God does these things. He is so lavish in His love; it takes my breath away. It really does. Just when we think something has ended, He always shows us a new beginning.
~ Kathryn Springer
I think sometimes that God's favorite word is surprise!
~ Kathryn Springer
Virginia: Oh, you made it. Tony: I was going to say the same to you. I've been here quite a while Virginia: Really? Tony: Yes, about an hour. Virginia: I didn't know it was a race. Tony: I didn't know that was a path.
~ Kathryn Wesley
Plants grew in the corners of the room, pale pink pods that occasionally liked to dine on warm meat through some corrosive process Dominic didn't want to understand.
~ Kathryne Kennedy
When Ben turned, his dark eyes danced with yellow light. Already handsome, flaring took his attractiveness to a whole new level. Ben's coppery skin practically glowed in the evening light. I turned quickly, surprised by the color rising to my cheeks.
~ Kathy Reichs
Deer in headlights. Cornered suspect. Mouse in the open, owls circling.
~ Kathy Reichs
Who's there?
~ Kathy Reichs
Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.
~ Kathy Reichs
Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth?
~ Katie MacAlister
Concentrate on the question. Oooh, interesting. I haven't seen that stone in that position before. Have you had a history of spontaneous combustion in your family?" His eyes widened in surprise. I grinned."Just kidding.
~ Katie MacAlister
Lady Rowena gasped in horror at the sight of Lord Raoul's majestic purple-helmeted warrior of love.
~ Katie MacAlister
Are you unwell? You aren't going to vomit on me, are you?" "That wasn't on my list of planned activities for the afternoon, no, but if you really insist, I suppose I could try for a hairball or something.
~ Katie MacAlister
Nora's startled intake of breath quickly followed, her eyes huge with horror behind her glasses. "Aisling! Dear god. What have you done?" "You know that badass demon lord who was after her blood?" Jim asked. Nora didn't back up the way Drake's mother did, but she did wrap her arms around herself, as if in protection. She nodded. "Well, guess whose ass is the baddest now?
~ Katie MacAlister
There's a bit of a difference between a guy lying back being all sexy and come hither and mmrowr-worthy, and a man who has a toy stuffed parrot hanging from his nips.
~ Katie MacAlister
I'm sure nothing more exciting will happen beyond finding some Roman ruins beneath the pasture," Gunner predicted, an excellent example of why he would never be called psychic in any understanding of the word.
~ Katie MacAlister
Unexpected Penis is my grunge band name
~ Katie MacAlister
You took a bath without me?" I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice.
~ Katie MacAlister
And there came a small sound from the small person in my arms. My rib cage expanded with surprise and wonder, expanded with love, until I thought it would crack open and could not rightly be called a cage anymore.
~ Katie Williams
I'll go on being nosy. Are you going to come clean with me about Taylor?" Trevor grimaced faintly. He stared at nothing in particular for a moment, then sighed. "What can I say about a woman who tells me—scant minutes after we meet—that she's the woman I'm going to marry?
~ Kay Robbins
HEAVENS NEED FURNACES Heavens need furnaces, The factories where dross converts to light gasses. The sloughed skins of dreams are instant fuel, remarkably full of oil like creosote bushes. Your worst losses warm angels; despair puts a glint on God's hair. And the nicest surprise is the substance that rises when you know you can't get there from here.
~ Kay Ryan
Dear God, Lisa, what are your gingerbread men doing to each other? It's like a gingerbread orgy down there! You made porn cookies!
~ Kaya McLaren
The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse…saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart.
~ Kaye Gibbons
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro