Surprisingly Quotes
170 Surprisingly quotes by 157 unique authors
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Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had…
— Jonathan Franzen
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It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls…
— Lauren Oliver
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I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two…
— Jennifer Armintrout
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Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties…
— Amartya Sen
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I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
— R.L. LaFevers
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My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish…
— Victoria Alexander
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How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his…
— Jonah Lehrer
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You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true— and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?†“You....Your…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would…
— Jenna Black
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The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the…
— Suzanne Collins
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Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone. "Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it?
— Cassandra Clare
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Madness is surprisingly freeing.
— Mira Grant
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She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick.…
— Betty Neels
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I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.†“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.
— Mark Helprin
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If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.†“White what?†I almost sat…
— Richelle Mead
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We’ll go.†Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight.
— Lauren Oliver
Who Wrote These Surprisingly Quotes
157 authors contributed a total of 170 Surprisingly Quotes, led by these top contributors: