Happened Quotes - Page 32

• (Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?" "You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right?

  Simone Elkeles

  Bleeding, Faces, Busted

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• It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

  Justin Cronin

  Two, World, Thirty

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.192, Ballantine Books

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• He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Alive

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• What if one of her father’s soldiers panicked and fired for no reason? Though pilots were carefully trained, mistakes happened and she didn’t want to be included in a statistics report under “uh-oh, my bad.”’ (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Mistake, Soldier

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, Macmillan

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• What happened to Darling’s face? (Kiara) It got his. Repeatedly. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Faces, Darling

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• I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Night, Worship You

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• I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Way, Happenings

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart. "What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?" A thin wailing came from Brightpaw, which gradually formed into words. Fireheart stared at her in horror as he made out what she was trying to say. "Pack, pack," she whispered. "Kill, kill.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Trying, Horror

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• The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.

  Javier Marías

  Shining, Truth Is, Remains

  Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (2000). “A Heart So White”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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• So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it’s capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Holes, Wells, Ifs

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• Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head on one side, a story on the other. Someone you loved and what happened. That's all there is when you dig in your pockets. The most significant thing is someone else's face. What else is embossed on your hands but her?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Adventure, Thinking, Hands

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• [O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

  Joan Didion

  Blessing, Twenties, Three

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 07, 2011

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• Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

  Kingsley Amis

  Art, Philosophy, Light

  Kingsley Amis (1978). “Jake's Thing”, Hutchinson Radius

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• No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Song, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• How is Eric?' 'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.' 'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.' 'Oh. Well ... great.' She hung up.

  Charlaine Harris

  House, Eric, Warning

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.175, Penguin

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• There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Terrible, Terrible Things

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• It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

  Shannon Hale

  Karma, Magic, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You told me once, long ago, to look into a mirror and see your face. I refused to then. But now Mnimi has forced me to look at my own reflection. I’ve seen it through my eyes and I’ve seen it through yours. I wish to the gods that I could change what happened between us. If I could go back, I would never deny you. But I can’t. We both know that. Now I just want the chance to know you as I should have known you all those centuries ago. (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Reflection, Mirrors

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• He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. "My God," he said. "What happened?" "I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Book, School, Long

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

  James Frey

  Thinking, Answers, Self Loathing

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.44, Anchor

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• Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

  Charles de Lint

  Once Upon A Time, Would Be, Ifs

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• Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not true," he says. "Well, he *seemed* more paranoid to me," I say. "And he still gets a little weired out when any one mentions angels.

  Holly Black

  Weed, Fall, Reading

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• That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Political, Mind

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “Letters to a Young Novelist”, p.3, Macmillan

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• I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.

  Jandy Nelson

  Writing, Who I Am, Wind

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.158, Penguin

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• When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

  Patch Adams

  Beautiful, Girl, Looks

  "Patch Adams". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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