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• Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

  A. A. Milne

  Doors, Piglet, Letters

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• They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.

  Alice Hoffman

  Loyalty, Dream, Dog

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• This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Stories, Found

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

  Ted Dekker

  Laughter, Mad, Joy

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• She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention.

  Kevin Hearne

  Thinking, Honor, Goddess

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.501, Del Rey

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• So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

  Anna Godbersen

  Ends

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• But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.

  Jay-Z

  Real, Rap, Angel

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• He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Ocean, Hair, Ears

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• He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Guests, Apologizing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Stardust”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

  Rex Stout

  Guy, Helping, Born

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.252, Crimeline

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• The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

  Amy Carmichael

  Silly, Soul, Training

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.14, CLC Publications

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• We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Two, Stills

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 08, 2016

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• What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love Is, Men, Giving

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Past, Utopia

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What were you chanting when you gave me your blood?” “More of my vampire magic. I cast a healing spell to aid the powers of my blood.” She sniffled, her nose stuffy. “It was better than Vicodin.” “Vicodin?” “A painkiller from my world.” “A killer of pain. Did you love him?” The words were growled.A burst of unexpected humor gave her strength. “No. In fact, he was hard to shake. He, uh, stalked me, that kind of thing. I had to pretend he didn’t exist.” Nicolai kissed her temple and relaxed against her.

  Gena Showalter

  Pain, Healing, Blood

  Gena Showalter (2016). “Royal House of Shadows: Part 2 of 12”, p.39, Harlequin

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• Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

  Matsuo Basho

  Dark, Frogs, Sleepy

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• This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

  Deb Caletti

  Grief, People, Upset

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

  Julia Quinn

  Moments, Unexpected Moments

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• How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Loss, Blood

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.594, Macmillan

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• It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

  Steven Moffat

  Funny Things, Perfect, Stories

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• I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

  Yann Martel

  Two, Hearing, Add

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.292, Vintage Canada

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• Have you ever been anyone's?" I ask, a feathery whisper in the quiet bedroom. He lifts his head to mine, and I want him so bad I feel consumed inside, like he's already possessed my soul, and now my soul aches for him to possess my body. A powerful emotion tightens his features as he reaches out to cradle my cheek in his big hand, and there's an unexpected fierceness in his eyes, in his touch, as he cups me. "No. And you?" The calluses in his palm rasp on my skin, and I find myself tucking my cheek deeper into them. "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I." The moment is intimate.

  Katy Evans

  Powerful, Eye, Hands

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• The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Love Is

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

  Dan Brown

  Toilets, Thrones, Realization

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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