Happened Quotes - Page 30

• Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, People, Wire

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• "What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?" Finnick asks.
  "No," I say.
  "No," Finnick repeats. "Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He eyes Peeta for a moment. "Except maybe Peeta."

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Eye, Past

  "Catching Fire". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2009.

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• Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

  Roberto Bolano

  Today, Ifs

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• Nothing made me happen. I happened.

  Thomas Harris

  Made, Happens

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• Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher) Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely slow. (Simone)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lasts, Tone, Painful

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dream Chaser: Number 14 in series”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• You happened to me,You scare me to death, you know. When you stormed into my life, you turned everything inside out. You upset all the things I believed about myself and made me think in new ways. I know who I used to be, but I’m finally ready to figure out who I am. Cynicism gets tiring, Isabel, and you’ve . . . rested me.And don’t you dare tell me you’ve stopped loving me back, because you’re still a better person than I am, and I’m counting on you to take more care with my heart than I took with yours.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Heart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mother, Stupid, Mind

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• The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.

  Augusten Burroughs

  School, Rehab, Facts

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.36, Macmillan

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• You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be – which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can sculpt it, but in the end we’re all pawns to our final destinies. Good, bad, or indifferent. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Destiny, Years

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• It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

  Jodi Picoult

  Disappointment, Mistake, Believe

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• Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?

  J.R. Ward

  Broken Heart, Distance, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.420, Penguin

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• Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Hard Times, Animal

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• Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

  Neil Gaiman

  Chicago, American Gods, Migraine

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale

  Ally Carter

  Home, Night, Guy

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• Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Wall, Princess

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• I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Money, Dad, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 06, 2011

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• Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Thinking, Impossible, Possibility

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• What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.

  Gena Showalter

  Eye, Blow, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.18, HQN Books

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• It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking--talking about how to protect her, actually--and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I'd found an entire universe in her eyes.

  Cate Tiernan

  Eye, Night, Talking

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• I ate her cooking for eighteen years," he whispered. "You get used to it." "Oh yeah, when?" "I think it happened around the seventeenth year," Henry said.

  Michael Buckley

  Thinking, Years, Cooking

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.264, Abrams

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• Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Dragons, Perfectly Normal, Trying

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• She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  World, Care, Creatures

  Rosemary Clement-Moore (2010). “The Splendour Falls”, p.92, Random House

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• If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Sheep, Significance

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• Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.

  Osamu Dazai

  Years, Lasts, Last Year

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• It matters to me. That's what you don't get. You can't understand. You can't understand what it's like knowing what I did. That whole time being Strigoi...It's like a dream now, but it's one I remember clearly. There can be no forgiveness for me. And what happened with you? I remember that most of all. Everything I did. Everything I wanted to do.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Knowing, Matter

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1040, Penguin

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