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• I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. "What they put in it.

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Kitchen, Links

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Creatures: Dream Dark”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ego, Glimpse, Ugly

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Doe

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• The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Eye, Heart

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.73, Random House

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• Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.

  Sarah Dessen

  Confused, Blue, Frustrated

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.366, Penguin

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• Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Beauty, Beautiful, Moving

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• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

  Jane Austen

  Party, Eye, Sight

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.201, Full Moon Publications

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• If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Arrogance, Behave

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• Nothing human surprises me.

  Charles Willeford

  Surprise Me, Humans

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• Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)

  Gail Giles

  Stuff, Breakthrough, Bad Stuff

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• He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Alive, Want

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• Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea." "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-" "Or twice-" "A minute-" "All summer-" "Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Mother, Thinking

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• When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

  Michael Scott

  Long

  Michael Scott (2007). “Alchemist”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.

  Tennessee Williams

  Glasses, Cities, Pieces

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.

  Sue Miller

  Distance, Bridges, Risk

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• Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Who I Am, Surprise Me, Capable

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the one surprise.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love Is

  Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.206, WaterBrook

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• I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.

  Tana French

  Years, Way, Evening

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• The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

  James Howe

  Past, Rabbits, Tricksters

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• What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Night, Landscape, Consciousness

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• That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

  Nicole Krauss

  Parent, World, Made

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Flower, Play, Blonde

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions

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• Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

  Jane Austen

  Differences, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

  D. J. MacHale

  Girlfriend, Nice, Reality

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