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• Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

  Kij Johnson

  Years, Waiting, Months

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• If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Sun, Hundred, Billions

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• ...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.' 'Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Son, Thinking

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• No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

  Paul Auster

  Dark, Thinking, Missing

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.187, Penguin

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• I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe.

  Henry Miller

  Mother, Stars, Lying

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.

  James Patterson

  New York, Lying, Looks

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Tired, Thinking

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Running, Flying, Forget

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.198, Macmillan

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• What happened?" -Ethon "Obviously something was hungry and bit the bear." -Kali

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kali, Bears, Hungry

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• No: What the heck happened? Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?

  Alyson Noel

  Kissing, Yards, Furniture

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Reality, Wind

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• I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

  S. E. Hinton

  People, Listening, Stuff

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.20, Penguin

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• Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

  Anne Rice

  Stories, Arms, Repeats

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• Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Flower, Wine, Mean

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.87, Random House

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• How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Half, Humans

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.894, Simon and Schuster

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• If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Ifs

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1071, Simon and Schuster

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• The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

  Libba Bray

  World, Sixteen, Imagine

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.1, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

  Haruki Murakami

  Accepting, Persons, Happens

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 30, 2014

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• Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.

  Nancy Werlin

  Motivational, Taken, Past

  Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.161, Penguin

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• No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm sure it's just a fluke" "Doesn't make any difference whether it's a fluke or not. It shouldn't have happened. When a person buys a box of lucky charms he's got expectations

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Writing, Lucky Charms

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• Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

  James M. Barrie

  Odd Things, Way, Happens

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.128, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Remember Something, Happenings

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Sky, Lovely

  Mark Twain, Barry Moser (1985). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

  Kate Atkinson

  Live Life, Hands, People

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• Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

  Mario Puzo

  Mother, Children, Father

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