Quotes About Surprise

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it

found out how fast things can change. You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

An amaryllis is always waiting to delight and surprise you, even when your world seems cold and dark.

You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. People could always change and always hurt you. Of course it went in the other direction too, you could hurt them when you didn't intend it and that too was out of your control.

There are a lot of surprising things in the library; a lot of things you don't think of when you try to imagine all of what a library might contain.

The department," she said in a choked voice, "the department got a letter from Mo Willems! Mo Willems! Can you believe it? Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is one of my favorite books. Oh, I think I'm going to cry.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

Even when you know something bad will happen, you still might not see it coming.

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

Sometimes destiny switches the cards on you so that while you're busy escaping from the dog, you find yourself facing the wolf

When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!

Do you want to come in?" I asked, surprised at myself. "No," he said. I realized that I wanted him to come inside. Which surprised me even more.

Things have been happening so quickly that I haven't been able to think them through. Which always makes me a little nervous. Not that anything like this has ever happened to me before.

What the hell was she doing on the nonhostage side of a handgun?

But he didn't seem surprised to see her. 'Hey.' 'Hey, yourself.' Okay, that was stupid. Her grandmother used to say Hey, yourself. Great, she was turning into her grandmother at the most inopportune time. She didn't want to sound like a well-adjusted sixty-year-old.

She took a deep breath and gave him a somewhat tentative smile. "You see, I need a date for my wedding." He stared at her, convinced he'd misunderstood. "You need a what?

Peeta?" I creep along the bank. "Well, don't step on me.

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. "Here." I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

That should have been my strategy! By the time I've worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I'm watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

She crept up on me.