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• Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?" "No. But they like surprises. Almost always.

  Derek Landy

  Waiting, Knows

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• You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

  Juliet Marillier

  Doors, Risk, Needs

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• I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.

  William Goldman

  Love You, Done, Hours

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black

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• M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Magic, Together

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• Please don’t do this—don’t do this to me. If anything happened to you—” He looked at her with surprise. There was already a red stain on the white bandages that wrapped his chest, where his movements had pulled his wound open. “I…” “What?” “I’m not used to you loving me,” he said.

  Cassandra Clare

  White, Movement, Red

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2097, Simon and Schuster

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• A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Class, Giving, Challenges

  "A Walk to Remember". Book by Nicholas Sparks, www.beliefnet.com. 1999.

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• Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories. "Well, now, here's a pickle.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Uncles, Memories, Voice

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• I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

  Glenn Beck

  Weekend, Gun

  "Sen. Thune's Measure to Expand Gun Rights Meets Defeat". www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

  James A. Owen

  Giving, Want, Might

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• TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong.

  Susane Colasanti

  Thinking, Long, People

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.122, Penguin

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• What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Few Words, Inquiry

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.210, Vintage

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• The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Boys, Hair, Sight

  "The Amulet of Samarkand". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

  Michael Scott

  Want, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  "The Enchantress". Book by Michael Scott, May 24, 2012.

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• To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

  Michael Grant

  Fear, Eye, Past

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• Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

  Bill Watterson

  Needs, Life Is, Life Is Full Of Surprises

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dad, Punishment

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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.

  Lorrie Moore

  Boots, Matter, Rooms

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 11, 2014

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• The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Laughing, Interesting

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• I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

  Garth Nix

  Baby, Father, Notes

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.10, Hot Key Books

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• Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Eye, Jake

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Mean Spirits”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Humility, Marketing, Shyness

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.61, Random House

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• In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Reading, Men

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• You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Paradise, Reason Why, Love Myself

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• We are our own greatest surprise.

  Paulo Coelho

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