Surprised Quotes
1260 quotes by 1026 authors
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I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after aisle of training…
— Jeff Lindsay
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Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to…
— Sarah Dessen
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I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break…
— James Patterson
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After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER.…
— Richelle Mead
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The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a…
— Sarah Vowell
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Jem: I know what you're thinking. Tessa:I don't think you do. You're think, If they call this damp nastiness summer, what must winter be like?…
— Cassandra Clare
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Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started…
— Rick Riordan
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Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked. "Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them…
— Edith Wharton
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Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd…
— Richelle Mead
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Okay,' I said quietly. 'I'll do whatever you say. Just remember not to talk down to me. I'm not your student anymore. I'm your equal…
— Richelle Mead
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What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
— Nicholas Sparks
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And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The…
— Douglas Adams
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-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for…
— Christine Feehan
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Hey Jacob!" I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
— Brent Weeks
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Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word --…
— Lauren Oliver
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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride…
— Donald Miller
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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
— Therese of Lisieux
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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end,…
— Karl Kraus
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