Happened Quotes - Page 29

• I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Weather, Adults, Done

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.152, Zondervan

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• We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Long Ago, Long, Forgotten

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• Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second. "Whoa!" Dan said. Amy gripped his arm. "You found it?" "No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts!" Dan grinned with delight. "He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Purple, Smell

  Rick Riordan (2016). “The 39 Clues 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones”, p.86, Scholastic UK

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• There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Strange, Kind

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

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• Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

  Margaret Atwood

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.305, Random House

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• I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Hurt, Eye

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1084, Ballantine Books

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• But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death of seeing people tortured in the name of God. What had happened to these people?

  Brom

  Names, People, Sick

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• If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mistake, Lessons, I've Learned

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• It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

  Joe Hill

  Philosophical, Exercise, Evil

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus I've got to get the war going once that's all happened, and all this is stuff I've got to do myself. Here's what it all comes down to: I'm just swamped, Ty.

  William Goldman

  Country, War, Party

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• I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

  Azar Nafisi

  Believe, People, Mind

  Azar Nafisi (2009). “Things I've Been Silent About: Memories”, p.23, Random House

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• Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him? ~ Susan

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wife, Articles, Divorced

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dark Side Of The Moon”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Bedroom, Good Things

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Morning, Years, Week

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• What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Encouragement, Writing, Ideas

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• At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

  Richelle Mead

  Long, Engagement, Lasts

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.228, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Heart, Reflection

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie) They thought it would be fun to knock around the ‘kid’ and show off their manhood. I thought it would be fun to knock a couple of them unconscious. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, Fun, Kids

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• What happened to your hair, tiger? (Fang) It fell off. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hair, Wrens, Tigers

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• What happened to him? (Lioness) He pissed me off. (Savitar) Why hasn’t one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness) He pissed me off...big time. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Lioness, Jaguars

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• So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Groups, Wrens, Maggie

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• I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dog, Eye, Doors

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor who happened to be standing there when the Soviet Union imploded. They have the media, the universities, the textbooks. We have ourselves. We are the witnesses.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Media, Trying

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• Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Moments, Richness

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.468, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Pay, Sometimes, Happens

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