Quotes About Surprise

ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK SIXTY MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY STARTING TO GASP AS she climbed the increasingly steep slope of the tangled hiking trail, Mary Catherine was about to take a breather when the tree line opened. Glancing out over the open ridge, she immediately halted in her tracks, as what was left of her breath was suddenly taken.

pair of virtually new ASICS cross-trainers. It was remarkable what you could find in a Goodwill store these days.

We heard from two bozos who I didn't know, then a guy named Matt Kruschik who ate his own boogers until fourth grade

Rhonda's eyes were so wide that I thought they might fall out of her head and roll around on the floor.

it was news to almost everyone else on the call.

Gilda gives me a funny, eyebrows-raised look. I don't know why.

We heard from two bozos who I didn't know

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of the sky.

The door swung open under

Neither of them were surprised

slim, brightly wrapped package

None of the terrible things that happen are a surprise to God. He knows what the day will bring, and I know He will test me. My compassion, sympathy, and empathy are gifts from God, and knowing I've done my very best to do His work helps.

the price of admission. He didn't think it could ever get better than that. But then she'd gotten

Licata's free hand clapped over his gaping mouth

And I pulled the alarm.

Mahoney tooted the horn again.

Anyone who says they know what I'll do next is full of shit 'cause even I don't know what I'll do next.

and what he was truly all about. Thirteen years old. I was still slightly stunned by that. Could a thirteen-year-old

Actually, it was more like they thought I was going to take off all my clothes and streak through the hallway.

worked in New York my whole life—actually lived only about twenty blocks away—and had never even heard of this place, or the Freedom Tunnel, for that matter. This city never failed to surprise. Hamster got out of the car, his big eyes blinking through the tangled gray mop of his hair as he looked around. We listened to the cooing of pigeons nesting in the crevices of the raised roadbed above as we waited.

Can Total, um, talk?" "Uh-huh," Angel said casually, squeezing water out of her hair. I stared at her. "He talks. Total talks, and you didn't tell me?" "Well…" Angel looked for him, saw he was pretty far away, and lowered her voice. "Don't tell him I said this, but he's actually not that interesting.

It's different from what he expected, but certainly not worse. Sometimes things happen in life, and we just have to accept them.

I was going to take off all my clothes and streak through the hallway.

we have a Gene-IE to grant us wishes," he said. Darlene brushed past in her white coat. To my surprise, Eliza was at the computer desk behind the lab door and looked up at me. "You took your time," she said with a glint in her green eyes. "Leaving us to do all the work." I had an overwhelming urge to hug her, which I didn't fight. She responded very tightly, then slowly broke away. "What are you doing standing