surprise

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007c552	"I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended."	kiss surprise sweet-talk	Maggie Stiefvater
56247c3	Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment -- that which they cannot anticipate.	people predictability surprise	Sun Tzu
2e5450a	Desperation can make a person do surprising things.	surprise	Veronica Roth
b2af367	"Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!"	battle blessing destiny fate fortune frank-zhang happiness happy heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades luck nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan surprise tides-have-turned turning-point	Rick Riordan
f5dab76	"Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me?"	sebastian-verlac surprise	Cassandra Clare
32e51b2	I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything	surprise	Charles Dickens
2de65ef	That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.	love surprise	Alexander McCall Smith
e9585b7	What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.	dreams reality surprise	Franz Kafka
216a0a6	How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.	regret surprise	Donna Tartt
1e92df4	Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.	nick surprise tears	Garth Nix
c7bb2d3	How could this have happened when everything was normal?	shock surprise	Joan Didion
a6b7c4a	Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.	surprise	Margaret Atwood
061d4ee	"The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised." The man who expects nothing sees redder roses than common men can see, and greener grass, and a more startling sun. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall possess the cities and the mountains; blessed is the meek, for he shall inhereit the earth. Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are."	inspirational surprise	G.K. Chesterton
87c4857	There can never be surprises in logic.	surprise	Ludwig Wittgenstein
fec216d	Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.	chaos surprise	Frank Herbert
8b1f34f	No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.	surprise	Lorrie Moore
5c81c33	Humans were always surprising me.	surprise	Stephenie Meyer
c6c9ed1	Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.	comfort surprise	Ben Aaronovitch
22ad072	Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.	answers end know middle-of-the-road pages smart surprise	Markus Zusak
f4e67f0	When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.	surprise	Max Lucado
78eb310	"Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus."	biblical brief humour i inspirational jesus perhaps said short surprise twelve whatever wit	Dennis Lehane
867652a	It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to diving.	battle dive surprise	Jim Butcher
fcbbbbd	"It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd made public his own discomfort. 'Peter Freyd is my brother, Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law,' he explained. Peter and Pamela had grown up together as step-siblings. 'There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in the home of Peter and Pam, while they were raising their daughters,' he wrote. He challenged Peter Freyd's claims that he had been misunderstood, that he merely had a 'ribald' sense of humour. 'Those of us who had to endure it, remember it as abusive at best and viciously sadistic at worst.' He added that, in his view, 'The False memory Syndrome Foundation is designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape.' He felt that there is no such thing as a false memory syndrome.' Criticising the media for its uncritical embrace of the Freyds' campaign, he cautioned:	bias biased child-abuse child-rape child-sexual-abuse denial deny enabling-abuse fabrication false-memory false-memory-syndrome-foundation flawed fmsf freyd incest influence jennifer-freyd lies media objective paedophile pamela-freyd pedophile peter-freyd protecting-pedophiles psychology reality sadistic sex-abuse siblings story surprise truth underwager	Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell
83a635f	I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.	death dispair humans jigsaw-puzzle lefovers realization surprise survivors witnesses	Markus Zusak
0034852	We come up against beauty here -- for the first time in our enquiry: beauty at which a novelist should never aim though he fails if he does not achieve it. I will conduct beauty to her proper place later on. Meanwhile please accept her as part of a completed plot. She looks a little surprised at being there, but beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face, as Botticelli knew when he painted her risen from the waves, between the winds and the flowers. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due--she reminds us too much of a prima donna.	botticelli novel plot surprise	E.M. Forster
937fd2b	It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.	emotions friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
8529d0a	IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.	love surprise	James Patterson
ee44cbb	You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.	emotions friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
e38f760	It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.	emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
ede0a16	Are you surprised by anything anymore? ~ Artemis Entreri	surprise	R.A. Salvatore
adb968c	Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.	surprise	Mark Haddon
ed964aa	Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.	emptiness grief hope surprise time	Anne Lamott
f23379a	Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.	emotions family friendships rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
e196191	What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.	surprise whisky	Spider Robinson
c0c6eca	Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.	surprise	Alexander McCall Smith
583a0e9	People like us can't afford to be surprised, Sarah. We don't have the luxury of making mistakes or being caught unaware. We have to sense who's on the other side of the door before they knock, and we have to know if they're a friend or an enemy.	surprise	Robert Ferrigno
182a528	The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.	pain surprise	Robert Ferrigno
83c7c74	Some people are just different, even in the same family.	emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
976ab92	There are hazards to every job, just like there are hazards to getting up in the morning. Driving to work, walking to the mailbox. Boarding a plane... The surprise isn't that we die. The surprise is how and when we die.	surprise	Tess Gerritsen
9552313	All of this,' the prophet said, serene, 'all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, it's all part of a greater plan.' 'You'd be surprised at how little comfort I take from that notion.	activities greater-plan little-comfort sayid serenity suffering surprise tyler-leander	Emily St. John Mandel
d2a73b5	This was the eighteenth day in a row that the special was Mushroom Surprise. It was called Mushroom Surprise because it would have been a surprise if anybody had ever ordered it. No one ever did--except Louis, of course. That's why they'd had it for eighteen days. There was always plenty left over.	lunch mushroom school surprise	Louis Sachar

007c552

"I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended."

kiss surprise sweet-talk

Maggie Stiefvater

56247c3

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment -- that which they cannot anticipate.

people predictability surprise

Sun Tzu

2e5450a

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

surprise

Veronica Roth

b2af367

"Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!"

battle blessing destiny fate fortune frank-zhang happiness happy heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades luck nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan surprise tides-have-turned turning-point

Rick Riordan

f5dab76

"Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me?"

sebastian-verlac surprise

Cassandra Clare

32e51b2

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

surprise

Charles Dickens

2de65ef

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

love surprise

Alexander McCall Smith

e9585b7

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

dreams reality surprise

Franz Kafka

216a0a6

How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.

regret surprise

Donna Tartt

1e92df4

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

nick surprise tears

Garth Nix

c7bb2d3

How could this have happened when everything was normal?

shock surprise

Joan Didion

a6b7c4a

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

surprise

Margaret Atwood

061d4ee

"The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised." The man who expects nothing sees redder roses than common men can see, and greener grass, and a more startling sun. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall possess the cities and the mountains; blessed is the meek, for he shall inhereit the earth. Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are."

inspirational surprise

G.K. Chesterton

87c4857

There can never be surprises in logic.

surprise

Ludwig Wittgenstein

fec216d

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

chaos surprise

Frank Herbert

8b1f34f

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

surprise

Lorrie Moore

5c81c33

Humans were always surprising me.

surprise

Stephenie Meyer

c6c9ed1

Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.

comfort surprise

Ben Aaronovitch

22ad072

Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.

answers end know middle-of-the-road pages smart surprise

Markus Zusak

f4e67f0

When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

surprise

Max Lucado

78eb310

"Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus."

biblical brief humour i inspirational jesus perhaps said short surprise twelve whatever wit

Dennis Lehane

867652a

It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to diving.

battle dive surprise

Jim Butcher

fcbbbbd

"It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd made public his own discomfort. 'Peter Freyd is my brother, Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law,' he explained. Peter and Pamela had grown up together as step-siblings. 'There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in the home of Peter and Pam, while they were raising their daughters,' he wrote. He challenged Peter Freyd's claims that he had been misunderstood, that he merely had a 'ribald' sense of humour. 'Those of us who had to endure it, remember it as abusive at best and viciously sadistic at worst.' He added that, in his view, 'The False memory Syndrome Foundation is designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape.' He felt that there is no such thing as a false memory syndrome.' Criticising the media for its uncritical embrace of the Freyds' campaign, he cautioned:

bias biased child-abuse child-rape child-sexual-abuse denial deny enabling-abuse fabrication false-memory false-memory-syndrome-foundation flawed fmsf freyd incest influence jennifer-freyd lies media objective paedophile pamela-freyd pedophile peter-freyd protecting-pedophiles psychology reality sadistic sex-abuse siblings story surprise truth underwager

Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell

83a635f

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

death dispair humans jigsaw-puzzle lefovers realization surprise survivors witnesses

Markus Zusak

0034852

We come up against beauty here -- for the first time in our enquiry: beauty at which a novelist should never aim though he fails if he does not achieve it. I will conduct beauty to her proper place later on. Meanwhile please accept her as part of a completed plot. She looks a little surprised at being there, but beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face, as Botticelli knew when he painted her risen from the waves, between the winds and the flowers. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due--she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

botticelli novel plot surprise

E.M. Forster

937fd2b

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

emotions friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

8529d0a

IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.

love surprise

James Patterson

ee44cbb

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

emotions friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

e38f760

It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.

emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

ede0a16

Are you surprised by anything anymore? ~ Artemis Entreri

surprise

R.A. Salvatore

adb968c

Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.

surprise

Mark Haddon

ed964aa

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.

emptiness grief hope surprise time

Anne Lamott

f23379a

Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.

emotions family friendships rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

e196191

What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.

surprise whisky

Spider Robinson

c0c6eca

Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.

surprise

Alexander McCall Smith

583a0e9

People like us can't afford to be surprised, Sarah. We don't have the luxury of making mistakes or being caught unaware. We have to sense who's on the other side of the door before they knock, and we have to know if they're a friend or an enemy.

surprise

Robert Ferrigno

182a528

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

pain surprise

Robert Ferrigno

83c7c74

Some people are just different, even in the same family.

emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

976ab92

There are hazards to every job, just like there are hazards to getting up in the morning. Driving to work, walking to the mailbox. Boarding a plane... The surprise isn't that we die. The surprise is how and when we die.

surprise

Tess Gerritsen

9552313

All of this,' the prophet said, serene, 'all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, it's all part of a greater plan.' 'You'd be surprised at how little comfort I take from that notion.

activities greater-plan little-comfort sayid serenity suffering surprise tyler-leander

Emily St. John Mandel

d2a73b5

This was the eighteenth day in a row that the special was Mushroom Surprise. It was called Mushroom Surprise because it would have been a surprise if anybody had ever ordered it. No one ever did--except Louis, of course. That's why they'd had it for eighteen days. There was always plenty left over.

lunch mushroom school surprise

Louis Sachar