Happened Quotes - Page 38

• You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ideas, Lasts, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

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• Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.

  Tina St. John

  Jobs, Eye, Cutting

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• Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Breathing, Going Away, Moments

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.105, Bantam

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• If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

  John Green

  World, Rats, Awful

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.6, A&C Black

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• The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Men, Silence

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• No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.

  Darren Shan

  Dying, Burning, Awful

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• All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Honesty, Liars, Mean

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, Chapter 26, "Lanre Turned" (p. 203), 2007.

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• Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

  Anne Lamott

  Sibling, Thinking, Clouds

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.6, Anchor

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• What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

  David Eddings

  Uncles, Stupid, Eagles

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog the streets. Most glass is shattered and the wind drifting through the hollow high-rises moans like an animal left to die. I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you're arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which road you took.

  Isaac Marion

  War, Thinking, Animal

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• ...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't want to pretend she never existed. So before I start forgetting, I have to get down exactly who she was, and exactly how she felt about everything. She was me a lot longer than I've been me so far.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

  Marianne Curley

  Children, Memories, Past

  Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.2, A&C Black

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• And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him. The girl in front of him seemed to disappear, and all there was in the hallway was him and the sweet, beautiful smell of his blood.

  P. C. Cast

  Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.43, Macmillan

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• I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Has Beens, Verge

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

  Abraham Verghese

  Ordinary, Sacred, Intrusion

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.375, Random House India

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• The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

  Ned Vizzini

  Giving, Brain, Enough Time

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• It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.

  Kristina McMorris

  Love You, Thinking, Light

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• What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  One Day, Belief, Persons

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.87, Penguin

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• Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

  Josh Lanyon

  Jobs, Long, People

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• Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Done, Has Beens, Worth It

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• Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular? Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

  Veronica Roth

  Sweet, Strong, Smart

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• All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Stories, Said

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• Once at a record store in San Francisco, over a thousand kids showed up. They pushed forward and broke a window. A big piece of glass fell on top of this girl. And the girl's throat was slit. She just got slit. And I remember there was blood everywhere. Oh God, so much blood. And she grabbed her throat and was bleeding and everyone just ignored her. Why? Because I was there and they wanted to grab at me and get my autograph. I wonder whatever happened to that girl.

  Michael Jackson

  Girl, Kids, Glasses

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• She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Safe Haven, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 02, 2011

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• Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.

  Ian Mcewan

  Not Sure, Knows, I Can

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.134, Random House

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