Surprised Quotes
1260 quotes by 1009 authors
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Are you going to shoot me?' Vengeous sneered. 'I wouldn't be surprised. What would a thing like you know about honor? Only a heathen would…
— Derek Landy
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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
— Jacqueline Carey
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What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy…
— Rachel Caine
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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
— Tom Robbins
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And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly…
— Terry Pratchett
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You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?
— Sarah Dessen
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Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did…
— Joseph Heller
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
— Jack Kerouac
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It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised…
— J M Coetzee
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You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles…
— Beverly Cleary
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...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended…
— Christopher McDougall
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Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There…
— Susan Minot
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Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as…
— Marisha Pessl
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You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced…
— Lois Lowry
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People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Almost lost you," he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing…
— Unknown Author
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Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As…
— N.D. Wilson
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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