Quotes of: Surprises Keyword

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

Comfort & Joy

Why are you so angry?” His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.

A Different Blue

Hap sighed. If he could change one thing about Umber-besides his constant need for the thrill of exploration-it would be his obsession with secrets and surprises.

Dragon Games

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

The Ersatz Elevator

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

The End

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

Fever Crumb

There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that's more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.

Fangirl

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Fanny's First Play

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

The Fault in Our Stars

Families are so important here," I said. She looked surprised. "They are not everywhere?

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

The God Cookie

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

Ghost Town

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

How To Write Science Fiction

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

The Broken Kingdoms

I'm surprised." My eyes find hers as I cock an eyebrow. "Why?" "You loved science." "I loved you more.

Breathe with Me

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Burnt Offerings

One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.

Dominique Moceanu

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

JR

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

Ron Fournier