“Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
“True beauty is always oddly surprising.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.