Quotes About Surprise

OMG, I am a married woman!

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name Paradox. Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!

It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. It's all right, you little gray mouse, he said laughing rather pityingly. I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I'd be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!

On Wednesday, for variety, he accosted Andrew as Andrew went out to check the state of the garden walls and presented a further cardboard box containing ten kilos of tomatoes and a squash like a deformed head of a baby.

Oh, hello, Howl," Michael said helplessly.

I have one talent, he wrote, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas.

I thought we'd known everything there was to know about each other but obviously that wasn't the case.

I've always had this feeling that there should be some loud noise when that happens," Jim said to Harb. "A bang, or a thunderclap or something.

Searching too hard for God can get in the way of finding Him. Sometimes you just have to stop looking and let yourself be taken by surprise.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Was it a miracle? It was as if they had dreamt of a pot of gold and woken to find it on their pillow. As if they had told a tale of a fairy princess and finished it only to find her sitting in a corner of the room, listening.

They stood in silence, looking at floorboards and corners of cornices and other such insignificances, their curiosity and compassion at the ready. They were waiting so hard that when the door cracked and Bellman appeared, they jumped.

and goings, and the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.

copper curls turned. I was stunned. The glasses were gone. Green eyes, bright as glass and as real

Anyone would think you'd seen a ghost!

Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead.

My God - it's a green child! said the American. What is this place - the House of Usher?

There's a dolphin's brain in my in-box but come see me in forty-eight hours.