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Quotes About Surprise

I didn't know you were going to be so beautiful, fill my heart..
~ Hisham Matar
J'ai toujours imaginé que la franchise et un certain amour de la vérité faisaient partie du fondement même de mon caractère. Or me voici impliqué dans une relation qui fait du mensonge, de la ruse et de la dissimulation des nécessités presque quotidiennes et à ma grande surprise, je découvre que je ne suis pas si mauvais que ça
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad!
~ Hoda Kotb
Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me. "We would be surprised to find that," I call back.
~ Holly Black
I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him.
~ Holly Black
I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh, no." I take a sip of coffee and wince. It was ridiculously strong. My grandfather shoves a strip of bacon in his mouth with a grin. "Guess it would have been kind of weird if we'd had the same dream." I roll my eyes. "Well, you'd better not tell me anything else. Don't ruin the surprise in case I have it tonight.
~ Holly Black
Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong?
~ Holly Black
Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?" Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. "Could you guys try to lay low?
~ Holly Black
Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call's eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring at them — Tamara looking shocked, and Aaron, standing near her, started to laugh. Call was pretty sure Aaron was laughing at the fact that Call, having no idea where to put his hands, was waving his arms around like a squid underwater.
~ Holly Black
I thought love was just supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.
~ Holly Black
Surprised?" I ask, a fierce grin starting on my face. The most important boy in Faerie and my enemy, finally in my power. It feels even better than I thought it would. "You shouldn't be.
~ Holly Black
She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here." "I live here.
~ Holly Black
that's one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.
~ Holly Black
Jack looked surprised when she stumbled upon him, which was odd, because he was almost never caught off guard. As his mother once said about him, Jack could hear the thunder before the lightning bothered to strike.
~ Holly Black
Ah." He sat down on the couch, looking stunned with lack of sleep. "And so you came here in the middle of the night?
~ Holly Black
You're going to get all the things you think you can't have," she says quietly, reaching out to rub red lipstick from my cheek. "You just don't know it yet.
~ Holly Black
Tamara gave Jasper a long, considering look. Then she picked up her bowl of pudding and turned it upside down on top of his head. Purple goop ran down his face. He yelped in surprise.
~ Holly Black
Holy moly. - Jasper
~ Holly Black
Well, wife,' he says to me, a chill in his voice. 'It seems you have kept at least one secret from your dowry.
~ Holly Black
It feels a bit like expecting a proposal of marriage, only to get offered the role of mistress.
~ Holly Black
Looking past Lucien and Elisabet, Tana finally saw Aidan. He was underdressed, slouching against a wall in a black silk shirt over black jeans. Tana wondered if Midnight had picked out those clothes for him and then wondered if they'd been borrowed from Rufus. Steeling herself, she walked over to him, giving a wide berth to any other vampire she saw. "Tana!" Aidan said, looking incredibly pleased to see her right up to the moment when she punched him in the face.
~ Holly Black
I'm afraid I may have set one of the guests on fire.
~ Holly Black
Have you come to gloat?' I ask, frustrated. 'To stop me?' I am not sure how powerful a kelpie is out of the water and in the shape of a man. 'To surprise you,' he says. 'Aren't surprises wonderful?
~ Holly Black
I assume you forgot that your sister's wedding would require a new gown. Or a gown at all." "At least one person is going to be naked," I say
~ Holly Black