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Quotes About Surprise

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I Am Jack's Medulla Oblongata I Am Jill's Nipple I Am Jack's Colon I Am Jack's Raging Bile Duct I Am Jack's Cold Sweat I Am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise I Am Jack's Inflamed Sense of Rejection I Am Jack's Smirking Revenge I Am Jack's Broken Heart
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jump to another weird sick disappointment just coming over the horizon.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The ice-cold way death can hit you in the noontime of a sunny day just when you'd never expect.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You just don't expect to meet dead people.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Give me terror. Flash. Give me panic. Flash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Give me wonder, baby. Flash. Give me amazement. Flash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kid's got this look like he's just seen the wrong person naked riding a bicycle from behind.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It feels bad, telling you all this. Spoiling the surprise, I mean. You'll see it all yourself, soon enough. That is, if you live too long. Or if you just give up and go nuts ahead of schedule. My mom, Eva, even you, eventually everybody gets a bracelet.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Our real discoveries come from chaos," Brandy yells, "from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Wait- there was a book?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The best gift you can give somebody is a surprise because they never forget.
~ Chuck Wendig
It's probably the only attraction in Shartlesburg, Pennsylvania, a town whose name Miriam finds so funny she, well, nearly sharts every time she hears it.
~ Chuck Wendig
That is an entire box of thermal detonators." "I didn't think they were snow globes." "Can I trust you not to blow us up? You handle those things like a dockworker dropping off a case of potted bantha meat.
~ Chuck Wendig
And then, suddenly, there's something else. When you least expect it. Suddenly there's an opportunity, an opening, a person or people you couldn't have imagined, and - elation!-it feels as though you've found the pot of gold, when you'd thought all the gilt was gone from this world forever. It's enough, for a time - maybe even for a long time - to make you forget that you were ever angry, that you ever knew what anger was at all.
~ Claire Messud
As you walk, notice expectations you may be holding about what birds you may meet, observe them and let them go. Bring your awareness back to sights and sounds in the landscape. Open up to the unexpected in each moment - and accept the possibility of seeing no birds at all.
~ Claire Thompson
mother. "BONNIE?" Just
~ Clare McNally
Annabelle, I'm going to kill you! I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped. It looked like someone had beaten me to it.
~ Cleo Coyle
After a battle lasting many ages, The Devil won, And said to God (who had been his Maker): Lord, We are about to witness the unmaking of Creation By my hand. I would not wish you to think me cruel, So I beg you, take three things From this world before I destroy it. Three things, and then the rest will be wiped away. God thought for a little time. And at last He said: No, there is nothing. The Devil was surprised. Not even you, Lord? he said. And God said: No. Not even me.
~ Clive Barker
Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite
~ Clive Barker