Quotes About Surprise

And Arya! He cringed

We thought you were dead." "They'll have to try harder than that if they want to kill me. Bunglers, the lot of them.

but he was too slow, and the raging, red-eyed rabbit ripped out Hord's throat

Once Zoopy started woofing you never knew when he'd stop. Agent One screamed, "It's alive! I thought it was a car!

And I'd never heard Mother and Father argue before.

And when you are done with the book bring it back and I have something special for you!" She had a huge smile on her face. I said, "Thank you, ma'am," but I didn't get too excited ' cause I know the kind of things librarians think are special.

another finger sign I'd never seen before

Something like hearing that your grandmother got her whole body pulled through the wringer on a washing machine, or something like hearing about a horse slipping on the ice and landing on some kid you went to school with.

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.

The best art always comes unbidden.

The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat. —Anne Lamott in Operating Instructions

There were Colorgraphics and Summagraphics; Altergo and C. Itoh; and Ball. "Hey, wait a minute. What's Ball doing here? Aren't they the mason jar people?" "Yeah, but they also make disk drives.

Because you never know when goodness is going to come showering down. Sometimes, it even comes down in buckets.

That's who attacked us?" Balkan muttered. "She's barely more than a child." "A small package with a big surprise inside," Sarrin said dryly.

There was no plot... and I discovered it by mistake.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .

RzeczywiÅ›cie, czÄ™sto siÄ™ zdarza, ?e idzie siÄ™ do biblioteki, bo chce siÄ™ ksi??kÄ™ o znanym tytule, ale gÅ'ównÄ… funkcjÄ… biblioteki, a przynajmniej funkcjÄ… biblioteki w moim domu i w domach wszystkich znajomych, jakich mo?emy odwiedza?, jest odkrywanie ksi??ek, których istnienia siÄ™ nie podejrzewaÅ'o, a które, jak siÄ™ okazuje, sÄ… dla nas niezwykle wa?ne.

The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art.

They came out into the sunshine and the wind, one after the other like dice falling from a cup.

Women make up half the world; and I thought I had reached the stage where there was nothing in a woman's nakedness to surprise me. But I felt now as if I was experiencing anew, and seeing a woman for the first time.

In fact, the only person who seemed to examine the event with some astonishment was myself, who marvelled that such a turn in my life could occur so easily.

found, to his surprise, that he had put an end to their threats.

After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets' efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime assurances of elections to come.