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  1. Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War

    Twelve dead?" I said. "Jesus.
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  2. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots."
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  3. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
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  4. Markus Zusak _ Underdog

    Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will surprise you, but you never know. I don't know how smart or thick you are. You could be Albert Einstein for all I know, or some literary prizewinner, or maybe you're just middle of the road like me.
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  5. Maggie Stiefvater _ Shiver

    I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said.Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back.""Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended.
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  6. Louis Sachar _ Wayside School Is Falling Down

    This was the eighteenth day in a row that the special was Mushroom Surprise. It was called Mushroom Surprise because it would have been a surprise if anybody had ever ordered it. No one ever did-except Louis, of course. That's why they'd had it for eighteen days. There was always plenty left over.
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  7. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.
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  8. R.A. Salvatore _ Night of the Hunter

    Are you surprised by anything anymore?~ Artemis Entreri
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  9. Max Lucado _ Celebrating Christmas with

    When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise."
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  10. Mark Haddon _ The Curious Incident of the

    Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.
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  11. E.M. Forster _ Aspects of the Novel

    We come up against beauty here - for the first time in our enquiry: beauty at which a novelist should never aim though he fails if he does not achieve it. I will conduct beauty to her proper place later on. Meanwhile please accept her as part of a completed plot. She looks a little surprised at being there, but beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face, as Botticelli knew when he painted her risen from the waves, between the winds and the flowers. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due-she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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  12. Frank Herbert _ God Emperor of Dune

    Chance is the nature of our universe. {…} madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
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