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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 sweet-talk surprise 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!" fate happy destiny happiness tides-have-turned blessing turning-point heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson frank-zhang house-of-hades nico-di-angelo rick-riordan battle surprise fortune luck 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. reality dreams surprise Franz Kafka
216a0a6 How quickly he fell; how soon it was over. surprise regret 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 tears surprise 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
87c4857 There can never be surprises in logic. surprise Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
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
fec216d Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable. chaos surprise Frank Herbert
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 middle-of-the-road pages smart end know 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." humour jesus inspirational biblical short twelve whatever said i perhaps brief surprise 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: lies story influence reality truth bias biased child-abuse child-rape enabling-abuse fabrication false-memory fmsf freyd jennifer-freyd objective paedophile pamela-freyd peter-freyd protecting-pedophiles sadistic sex-abuse underwager flawed pedophile denial deny siblings media surprise child-sexual-abuse incest false-memory-syndrome-foundation psychology 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 lefovers jigsaw-puzzle witnesses realization surprise humans survivors Markus Zusak
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
8529d0a IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME. love surprise James Patterson
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 plot surprise novel E.M. Forster
ede0a16 Are you surprised by anything anymore? ~ Artemis Entreri surprise R.A. Salvatore
937fd2b It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong. friendship tragic rich emotions surprise Danielle Steel
e38f760 It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person. family friendship tragic rich emotions surprise Danielle Steel
ee44cbb You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you. friendship tragic rich emotions surprise 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. whisky surprise Spider Robinson
f23379a Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other. family tragic friendships rich emotions surprise Danielle Steel
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. time grief hope emptiness surprise Anne Lamott
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. suffering activities greater-plan little-comfort sayid tyler-leander serenity surprise Emily St. John Mandel
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
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. mushroom lunch surprise school Louis Sachar
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
c0c6eca Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised. surprise Alexander McCall Smith
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. family friendship tragic rich emotions surprise Danielle Steel
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