This May Surprise You

"You may find it hard to believe but I was once like you."
—Polly Teale's dramatization of Jane Eyre (1999)

"You may find it hard to believe that a starched shirt can feel comfortable. Well, now you can believe it!"
—Ebony (Feb. 1986)

"If you persist in being self-sufficient, you may be quite surprised when your partner leaves you, citing his or her reason as, 'You don't need me.'"
—Tracy Lewis, Living Life Consciously (2009)

"You may find it hard to believe, but the last thing I want is to inherit a title tainted by the suspicion that I murdered the previous holder to gain it."
—Shirlee Busbee, Rapture Becomes Her (2011)

"For every magician who plucks a coin or card out of thin air, some cohort has to send a coin or card back into that air!"
—Larry Thornton, "A Brief Dissertation Plucked out of Thin Air"

[Thanks, Gordon!]

"We can't see peels of thunder because they're the same color as the sky, so they blend in."
—Jeff Hawkins

Not that we didn't trust him, but we sought to corroborate Mr. Hawkins' assertion.  In Frances Hodgson Burnett's T. Tembarom (1913), we find verification that purplish-gray is "the color of thunder" (p. 273).

"You may find it hard to believe and certainly paradoxical, but permitting yourself 20 minutes a day to do nothing but rest and relax may be the most productive time you have spent in years!"
—Harriet B. Braiker, The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome (2002)

"I know some guys that, though hard to believe ... completely respect and support me and my surfing." —Hillary Carlip, Girl Power (2001)

"You may be quite surprised at how much you can get for that old painting that's been sitting in the attic for years."
—Green Your Home All in One For Dummies (2009)

"Unless you have heard it yourself you may find it hard to believe that the woodcock, that long-billed, bug-eyed eater of earthworms, can sing a song as sweet as a nightingale's."
—Field & Stream (April 1972)

"You may be quite surprised at the pleasant sounds you are making."
—Shelley Katsh & Carol Merle-Fishman, The Music Within You (1985)

Hackers deleted our photographic proof that a blurry harvest moon perfectly lines up with the eyes, nose, cheekbones, and enigmatic smile of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.  [The only good that comes of hacker deletions is that we're shown we're truly onto something ... something perhaps too "dangerous" for the zeitgeist!]  We have restored our proof here:

https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=3018

"There are times you may be quite surprised, or even blindsided, by situations that you did not predict."
—John B. Montgomery, Great from the Start (2012)

"You may find it hard to believe, but there is an answer to the high price of gasoline."
—Popular Mechanics (March 1983)

"Look at the events in your dreams symbolically, not literally, and you may be quite surprised by the wisdom you find."
—Mind Over Money: How to Program Your Mind For Wealth

"You may be quite surprised at how much you have in fact been spending on entertainment."
—Linnette Vassell, Money Matters (1975)

"The surprising truth is that we all reach a saturation point when it comes to money." —Affluence Intelligence: Earn More, Worry Less, and Live a Happy and Balanced Life

"There are no miles in a bottle of ink."  (So said an old advertisement for Goodyear Tires.)  This may surprise you, but the fact that there are no miles in a bottle of ink thwarted cartographers for centuries.

"You may find it hard to believe, but this isn't necessarily the reality of the situation."
—Jacqueline Corcoran, The Depression Solutions Workbook (2009)