Quotes About Surprise

He noticed, without surprise, that the two cats had come along, even though he had not specifically included them in the transportation spell. Cats were like that.

When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would've prepared one in some way. This is not the case.

It is better to be prepared for the rock that doesn't fall than to be hit on the head by the one that you didn't expect.

Do you like children?" asked Cassie, staring at Grandfather. Grandfather took a spoonful of soup. "Do you? Like children?" asked Cassie again. Sarah reached out her hand and put it on Cassie's arm to stop her talk. "Don't know many," said Grandfather. "Do you like the ones you know?" "No," said Grandfather. Cassie was surprised at Grandfather's answer. Her mouth fell open.

Where's Cassie, Caleb? Is she asleep?" asked Sarah. Grandfather smiled. He leaned over and took Cassie's foot, sticking out from under the daybed. "I found you, Cassie," he whispered. "I found you.

You came during an early snowstorm

Sometimes you think you know more than you really do—people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.

Don't be silly," Linda said. "Emily knew all the time." Emily pulled an old flowerpot out of her way. "Let's look for the box," said Linda. "I'm looking," Emily said. "It's right here. In the corner." Emily leaned over. On

He'd misjudged her, badly.

Lazy Dan left the building and was replaced by Alarmed Dan.

Two seconds later, he bolted upright and turned to his sister with a big grin. "Hey! You know what this means? You and I are on our way to the scene of a murder!

When you get what you wish for, it's never quite what you think it will be.

La difficulté n'est pas d'espérer mais de demeurer capable de fasciner l'inespéré.

Bobcat?" he says. "What bobcat?

continuing. "You're not going to believe this, but it was me. I'm the officer that stopped him that night. I remember shining my flashlight on those garbage bags. I just can't believe

I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke, I couldn't think where I was.

One day, when I'd expressed surprise at that feigned carelessness, he'd told me you had to 'approach things gently and quietly or they pull away,

Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Life does not have to go how you think it will," Tomasz says. "Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.

Conor wasn't stupid. When they'd had the "little talk" the next day, he knew what his mum had done and why she had done it. But that didn't take away from how much fun that night had been. How hard they'd laughed. How anything had seemed possible. How anything good could have happened to them right then and there and they wouldn't have been surprised.

This is it. This is goodbye. A goodbye I wasn't even looking for.

That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.

She waits to see how I take this. I have no idea how I take this.