Quotes About Surprise

Rewards are most helpful and more enjoyable when they are unannounced in advance, when they come as a surprise, when they represent recognition and appreciation. Promises:

July is a blind date with summer.

Jeg tar av meg frakken, hatten og skjerfet og gir meg i kast med å tømme askebegre og plukke opp klær. Tre kvarter senere ser leiligheten ut som om den kunne ha blitt fotografert til Håndbok i husstell for leiemordere. Jeg har nettopp sunket ned i en lenestol, den som vender mot kjøkkenet og inngangsdøra, da Gunholder stiger inn. Jeg skynder meg å trekke inn magen.

The mustached Polish guy turned out to be a mustached FBI guy.

Actually it's quite amazing. One year back, even the Ambani's didn't know who was Hardik Pandya."

Man plans. God laughs.

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this." He turns out the light. BLACKOUT

Funny how you can go along for years hardly thinking about someone, then all of a sudden be so glad to see him.

I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.

windows, shouting, 'There's a huge dead

like a rugby type buying lingerie for his wife. But still.

And a plastic grocery bag containing a

Every day should be unwrapped as a gift.

When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'" With wide-eyed disbelief Anton looked out over her head.

Tsjallingtsjes strenge gezicht was steeds bereid om van de ene seconde op de andere volledig te verschieten in iets totaal anders, alsof in een donkere kamer het licht werd aangedaan. Misschien was het talent tot lachen eigenlijk wel de ware geest, meer dan het vermogen tot intellectuele krachttoeren.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —ANDRÉ MAUROIS

to find Gabbi waiting by her

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

What are we going to blow up?" Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid... you just said my seven favorite words.

The low noise he uttered in response sounded very much like a laugh. Her heart bloomed like a flower, for she had almost begun to believe she would never hear such a thing from her husband, and she was so glad she had.

Mr. Bradford," she said. "I'm not going to propose to you." The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's eyes faded. So did his smile. He managed to keep it on his face. It looked painful. "Oh," he said. "Mr. Bradford?" "Yes?" "Would you mind it so very much if...you know...you proposed to me?" The light in Mr. Bradford's eyes jumped to life. He beamed so largely it almost wasn't crooked. "If you want.