Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“they never thought any one would act on their theories! No one was more astonished than they when what they’d been talking of for…

— C.S. Lewis

“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”

— Anonymous

“...that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“. . . reality just seems to come in certain undeniable chunks.”

— Stephen T. Asma

“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.”

— Philip Roth

“Then, dramatically, all of a sudden, totally out of nowhere, and to my utter astonishment, absolutely nothing happens.”

— James Marshall

“Reality is strange, exhilarating, and tragic. Sometimes reality is well beyond our understanding.”

— Joe Mynhardt

“Strange, awkwardly written, and even shocking, it broke new ground in more than geographical and observational terms.”

— Linda Colley

“Like most remarkable things, nobody realized it was remarkable as it happened.”

— Gene Doucette

“It's amazing how something that had, in concept, seemed so insignificant to my life could not become my entire world.”

— A. Meredith Walters

“It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation.”

— Kate Morton

“About the only thing we can imagine is catastrophe.”

— David Graeber