Happened Quotes - Page 31

• I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Felt, Universe

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.91, Penguin

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• He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Believe, Weather, Kind

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.160, Bantam

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• You’re the only thing I’ve ever done right in my entire life and if anything ever happened to you, they’d have to dig two graves ‘cause I couldn’t live a single day without my baby beside me. (Cherise)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Two, Done

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.42, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My demon ate them. (Nick) What happened to the jocks? (Acheron) Riiiight. And I suppose the Big Bad Wolf will be coming in right behind you to finish up? Or is it the Gingerbread Man I need to fear? (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Needs, Gingerbread

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• What are you? (Nick) Completely perplexed. You remember everything that happened. (Acheron) Yeah. Duh. Not like you’re going to forget the killer zombie stalkers and psyched-out kitchen staff. What kind of freak show is this? (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Remembers Everything, Kitchen, Zombie

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• How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Keys, Car

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• What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

  J.R. Ward

  Knives, Brotherhood, Sides

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1676, Penguin

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• I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Intelligent, Views, Laughing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.160, Collector's Library

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• You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once upon a time, detective. I know what they like. Every little girl wants to be a princess.” A thoughtful frown overcame the angry tension on Caine’s rugged face. “And what happens when they grow up?” I thought of my mother and sisters and all the horrors that had happened the day they’d died. A bitter laugh escaped from my tight lips. “Then they just want to be little girls again.

  Jennifer Estep

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

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• We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

  Primo Levi

  Events, Fundamentals, Unexpected

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• Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.

  Laura Dave

  Filled In, Long, Details

  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.56, Penguin

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• It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

  Arundhati Roy

  Impossible, Unthinkable, Thinkable

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• Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.

  Lydia Davis

  Running, Morning, Taken

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• Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Cancer, Bed

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.253, Random House

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• Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

  Peter Lerangis

  Mind, Hey, Amy

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• I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Forever, Bathroom, Praying

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• Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Father, Next Day, Feelings

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

  Ray Bradbury

  Ignorance, People, World

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Moving, Rivers, Singing

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.45, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fear, Memories, Real

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

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• Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.

  Julia Quinn

  Cutting, Kissing, Men

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• In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Writing, Hunting

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• Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Memories, Race, Years

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• When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Divorce, Light, People

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• If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

  Claudia Gray

  Love, Lying, Romance

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