Quotes About Surprise

Ian turned around, revealing a tear in his pants that exposed boxers with pink dollar signs on a white background, then quickly spun back around. "Uh, never mind.

The old lady told us Do not wake Ruhan', Jake replied, but who knew Ruhan was a chimpanzee? Apparently I said something that sounded like 'I ate your bananas' in Estonian.

closer, she spotted the brown wolf's

Considering the multitude of things that happen in any one person's life, it seems fairly unlikely that those little boys remembered the incident for very long. It was an introduction to what was to come. And cruelty could never again take them totally by surprise. But I have remembered it. I have remembered it because it was the moment I learned I was not to be trusted.

Christmas fell upon Eastvale like a knife-wielding mugger desperate for a fix ...

You have the most infernal habit when anyone says the simplest thing to you, of letting your lower jaw drop and looking like a half-witted sheep staring over a fence.

You assume you know your home. It's only when you return that you realise how strange it is.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

Hallelujah," Rybys said. "What?" he

Observing her youth, her automatic radiance, he said, "'I feel as old as yonder elm.'" "From Finnegans Wake," Kathy said happily. "When the old washerwomen at dusk are merging into trees and rocks." "You've read Finnegans Wake?" he asked, surprised.

My horse … is pregnant. … What do you say to that? ... I say pretty soon you'll have two horses

Believe me, I know a lot about harm's way. It turns sharp left off the road to Shitsville when you're least expecting it.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would... and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and suddenly I realized that I had been to China. So to speak. And I'd forgotten it.

The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air. . .and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

Ik wist niet eens dat u Alice heette. - Lyra

Malcolm verbeet de pijn in zijn linkerarm en rommelde onder in de rugzak op zoek naar de alethiometer in de zwartfluwelen stof. Terwijl hij hem tevoorschijn haalde, viel het fluwelen lapje open en het gouden mechaniek glansde in het zwakke licht. 'Wat is dát?' vroeg Asriel. 'Een aardigheidje voor Lyra.' En Malcolm stopte het vlug tussen haar dekentjes.

Then in a dazzling moment the black form of the spy-fly hurtled out of the tin and crashed hard into the monkey's face.

In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise.

She was genuinely startled. Will had appeared out of nowhere in order to help her; surely that was obvious. The idea that she had come all this way in order to help him took her breath away.

It was the most dangerous thing she had ever said. She could see quite clearly that only his astonishment prevented him from killing her at once.

Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.

But how will I get out? And all at once the door was open--and there was Seldon and behind him his mother. How'd you do that? I said. I opened the door, he said. But how? He shrugged. I pushed. I just pushed. It was open all the time. And that was when I began to bawl and Mrs. Wishnow took me in her arms and said, That's okay. Things like this happen. They can happen to anyone.

Son, anything can happen to anyone, my father told me, but it usually doesn't.