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"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."
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kiss
sweet-talk
surprise
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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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.
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people
predictability
surprise
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Sun Tzu |
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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surprise
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Veronica Roth |
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"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!"
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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
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Rick Riordan |
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"Well, hello there, Mother," Sebastian said in a voice like silk. "Surprised to see me?"
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sebastian-verlac
surprise
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Cassandra Clare |
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
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surprise
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Charles Dickens |
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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.
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love
surprise
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
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reality
dreams
surprise
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Franz Kafka |
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How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.
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surprise
regret
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Donna Tartt |
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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.
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nick
tears
surprise
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Garth Nix |
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How could this have happened when everything was normal?
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shock
surprise
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Joan Didion |
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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.
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surprise
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Margaret Atwood |
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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surprise
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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"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."
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inspirational
surprise
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G.K. Chesterton |
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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.
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surprise
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Lorrie Moore |
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Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
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chaos
surprise
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Frank Herbert |
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Humans were always surprising me.
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surprise
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Stephenie Meyer |
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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.
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comfort
surprise
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Ben Aaronovitch |
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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.
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surprise
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Max Lucado |
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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.
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answers
middle-of-the-road
pages
smart
end
know
surprise
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Markus Zusak |
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"Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus."
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humour
jesus
inspirational
biblical
short
twelve
whatever
said
i
perhaps
brief
surprise
wit
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Dennis Lehane |
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It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to diving.
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battle
dive
surprise
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Jim Butcher |
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"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:
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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
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Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell |
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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.
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death
dispair
lefovers
jigsaw-puzzle
witnesses
realization
surprise
humans
survivors
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Markus Zusak |
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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.
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surprise
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Mark Haddon |
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It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.
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family
friendship
tragic
rich
emotions
surprise
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Danielle Steel |
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It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.
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friendship
tragic
rich
emotions
surprise
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Danielle Steel |
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IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.
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love
surprise
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James Patterson |
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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.
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botticelli
plot
surprise
novel
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E.M. Forster |
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Are you surprised by anything anymore? ~ Artemis Entreri
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surprise
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R.A. Salvatore |
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You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.
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friendship
tragic
rich
emotions
surprise
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Danielle Steel |
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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.
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whisky
surprise
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Spider Robinson |
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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.
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time
grief
hope
emptiness
surprise
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Anne Lamott |
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Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.
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family
tragic
friendships
rich
emotions
surprise
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Danielle Steel |
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Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.
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surprise
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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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.
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surprise
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Robert Ferrigno |
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The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.
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pain
surprise
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Robert Ferrigno |
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Some people are just different, even in the same family.
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family
friendship
tragic
rich
emotions
surprise
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Danielle Steel |
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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.
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suffering
activities
greater-plan
little-comfort
sayid
tyler-leander
serenity
surprise
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Emily St. John Mandel |
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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.
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mushroom
lunch
surprise
school
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Louis Sachar |
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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.
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surprise
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