Nanny Ogg had always considered herself unshockable, but there's no such thing. Shocks can come from unexpected directions. (CJ)
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Verence suddenly looked like a man who had been expecting a frontal attack and suddenly finds nasty things happening behind him. (LL)
… you think you’re going to have a normal day and suddenly you’re in charge of a trolley with one squeaky wheel and an insane cat. (JB)
Gaspode had a way of turning up silently like a small puff of methane in a crowded room, and with the latter’s distressing ability to fill up all available space. (MA)
… they were a cunning bunch, poets, and could sneak up on you when your back was turned. (Sn)
When you aren’t expecting it, that’s when you should expect it! (Sn)
Glenda, lurking among the serving girls, was taken aback and affronted at the same time, which was a bit of a squeeze … (UA)
Like many large people, she could move as quietly as the balloon she resembled. (UA)
Ladies Who Organize are seldom thrown by guests arriving unexpectedly early. (Th)
'I know all about practising procedures for emergencies,’ said Lu-Tze. ‘And there’s always something missing.’
‘Ridiculous! We take great pains-’ ‘You always leave out the emergency.' (TOT) Archchancellor Ridcully decided that the crew needed to be trained. Ponder Stibbons pointed out that they were going into the completely unexpected, and Ridcully ruled therefore that they should be given some unexpected training. (LH)
'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' (TOT)
'Well, if you’re not going to expect unexpected flames, what’s the point of going anywhere? (LH)
The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs.
It’s also wrong. There’s a fifth element, and generally it’s called Surprise. (TT) The sudden appearance of a naked woman always caused a rethink of anyone’s immediate plans. (J)
That's how it goes, you think you’re on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you. (GO)
Bishops move diagonally. That’s why they often turn up where the kings don’t expect them to be. (SG)
... inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. (MP)
... magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. (ER)
If there’s one thing a wizard hates, it’s having to wait while the person in front of them is in two minds about coleslaw. It’s a salad bar, they say, it’s got the kind of stuff salad bars have, if it was surprising it wouldn’t be a salad bar, you’re not here to lookat it. What do you expect to find? Rhino chunks? Pickled coelacanth? (MR)
‘…I believe nougat is a terrible thing to cover with chocolate, where it can ambush the unsuspecting.’ (TOT)
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