Happened Quotes - Page 28

• They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Moving, Ineptitude, Dazzling

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• It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Fall, Eye

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• Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.

  Robertson Davies

  Years, Fifteen, Matter

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Summer, Girl, Dream

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

  Mark Twain

  May, Possibility

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince & The Pauper: [Complete & Illustrated]”, p.8, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You can't stay here much longer," she said. My mouth dropped open. "You...you speak English?" She snorted. "Of course.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Speak English, House

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.128, Penguin

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• Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

  Michael Chabon

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Real, Events

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

  Lewis Carroll

  Knowledge, Thinking, Way

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.15, Branden Books

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• For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Regret, Father

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• I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

  David Lynch

  Way, Remember, My Own

  "Lost Highway". Mystery, Thriller, 1997.

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• But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

  Suzanne Collins

  Doubt, Facts, Leading Me

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Over You, Different, Too Much

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• She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.

  Ann Brashares

  Things In Life, Imagine

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Feb 20, 2013

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• You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Strong, Hate, Voice

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• Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Song, Sleep, Thinking

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.354, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

  Nancy Werlin

  Healing, Night, Two

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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• Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.

  Raymond Carver

  Hurt, Mean, Firsts

  Raymond Carver (2016). “Cathedral”, p.24, Random House

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• The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.

  Bono

  Dog, Night, Long

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• Rose!" I looked to my right and saw Adrian cutting across the lawn toward me, oblivious to the slush's effects on his designer shoes. "Did you just call me 'Rose'?" I asked. "And not 'little dhampir'? I don't think that's ever happened." "It happens all the time," he countered, catching up to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Cutting, Thinking, Shoes

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.150, Penguin

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• I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Art, Reading, Thinking

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• She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Children, Memories, Misunderstood

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• If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Stories, Ends, Thousand

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