Quotes About Surprise

He was not the king they expected.

She filled her house with blacks, and white parsons who went around preaching Jesus was a revolutionary, and then when the police walked in she was surprised.

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

Illium seems far too pretty to be dangerous." Dmitri's male beauty, by contrast, was a darker, edgier thing. "No one ever expects him to take out a blade and slice off their balls," he said with lethal amusement in his tone as he drove them toward the George Washington Bridge. "He does it with such grace, too.

Thought you were--' '--Raphael said--' 'I said, no way in hell--' 'Damn straight--' '--and Ransom was ready to come--' '--woke up and I had wings!

Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be . . . scarier.

Sara had named her daughter Zoe Elena. Damn if Elena hadn't sniffled like a baby herself when she found out.

Deciding she couldn't really be bothered searching for the illusive closures, she was sitting quietly in bed when he returned. He halted for a second. "I'm surprised to find that you obeyed an order." "I'm not unreasonable...so long as the order is reasonable.

I thought your degree was in computronics." It didn't please Judd that there was something he hadn't known about her. An emotional reaction. The sweat rolling down his spine felt like ice this time.

Where did you come from? I wasn't looking for you.

Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.

First you throw bread at my head and bow you expect me to be a movie critic- Raphael said to Elena

Oh my God, I can't believe I actually said that out aloud". Neither could he. The fact that she saw him as so sexually appealing was enough of a surprise to render him speechless. He was numb. Even the dissonance cut off - likely reading his reaction as one of complete unemotionality.

Fangs flashed in her face. "It's so nice when lunch has the manners to present itself on the doorstep.

He nipped at her upper lip. "I bought the tux." She blinked. "You bought the tux." Bubbles of happiness burst into life inside her, rich and golden. "More cost-effective than renting one if you plan to use it a lot.

I'm happy to be here," he thought to himself as he shined an old woman's mirror, "and I know this is better than the Great Swamp of Ink, but it isn't what I expected at all.

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.

Perhaps, for some, love strikes like lightning, but for me, it crept upon me like a thief in the night. A very handsome thief, who has quite stolen my once-lonely heart.

Oh, here's a gift for The Third Tuesday in October, didn't you know that's a holiday? Well, I bought you a book.

Sin pensar, le pasé el brazo por encima de los hombros para darle calor. Entonces, antes de que ninguna de las dos supiéramos lo que ocurría, nos abrazamos y los labios suaves y delicados de Annie se posaron sobre los míos.

Uno de los efectos de la belleza femenina es que suscita interés, fascinación, sorpresa, consideración... y hostilidad

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.40