“Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.”
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
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“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides
Source: The Virgin Suicides
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“True beauty is always oddly surprising.”
Tanith Lee book The Birthgrave
Book Three, Part II “The Edge of the Sea”, Chapter 2 (p. 353)
The Birthgrave (1975)
“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
Context: And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.
“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”
Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey
Variant: No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Source: Agnes Grey
“The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising.”
David H. Levy (1948) Canadian astronomer
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.
