Quotes About Surprise

Brian noted Stephenson's thin face and was surprised to find that the term looking daggers was not as impossible as it had always sounded.

Boobs are like boyfriends. You go around wishing for them and trying to figure out what you have to do to get them, and worrying about all the things you're probably doing wrong, and then one day, who knows why, you wake up and find you've got more than you wanted.

A sudden change in plans will lead to good fortune.

To happiness in the strict sense, we may prefer pleasure, as a brief moment of ecstasy stolen in the course of things, gaiety, the lighthearted drunkenness that accompanies life's development, and especially joy, which presupposes surprise and elation. For nothing can compete with the irruption in our lives of an event or a being that ravages and ravishes us. There is always too much to desire, to discover, to love. And we leave the stage having hardly tasted the feast.

Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can't believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.

Adam wants to know what took you so long? "Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger.

If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.

I think it's the eyes. No one expects brilliance out of a man with eyelashes like that.

Suddenly I don't feel so bad at being rescued by a rabbit

Why the rolling pin and not a knife?" he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she'd seen his face on the stairs. "A knife wouldn't even slow him down, but bones take time to heal." He liked that. Who'd have thought he'd get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? "All right," he said. "All right.

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything about the finger, but it kept coming up in my thoughts. I've never had a finger thrown at me before. A new-and-improved addition to my creepy-hall-of-fame nightmares.

Scaring people is fun," said the witch, stepping out of the shadows about ten feet from the porch.

After the third swallow, he opened his eyes, and they were night-dark velvet. He reached up and grasped Jesse's hand where it lay on his shoulder, but his eyes were on me. "Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?

What are we hunting?" Anna's voice had lost the tautness of stress. "A treasure," said Tom. "The exact nature of which is a surprise.

He did not except the fire to destroy everything they hadn't found.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—'I didn't mean to startle her.

Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scrawled across it.

Thank God!" he said, and kissed her. Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache.

After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End

Really, Agatha, you might have told me." "Told you what?" Mairelon said. "That my ward was once a street thief? I didn't think it was a secret." "A street thief?" Letitia wrinkled her nose and looked at Kim with disfavor. "How horrid." "I think it is the most romantic story I have ever heard", Miss Matthews said with conviction.

and Nightwitch was batting him back and forth between her paws in wide-eyed fascination. I didn't think she'd ever played with a ball that yelled at her before.