Happened Quotes - Page 39

• I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Suffering, Want

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.227, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Moving, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.136, Penguin

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• I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pits, Maps, Planning

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.237, Penguin

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• We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Real, Passion

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

  Claudia Gray

  People, My Best Friend, Someday

  Claudia Gray (2011). “Afterlife (Evernight, Book 4)”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.

  E. B. White

  Pigs, Miracle, Ordinary

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• Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Nice, Glasses, Pounds

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Thinking, Long

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna.

  Nalini Singh

  Stupid, Voice, Brain

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.159, Penguin

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• I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

  Gayle Forman

  Life, Believe, Differences

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• Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Knowing, Conviction

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• Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.

  Aryn Kyle

  Pain, Past, Heartache

  Aryn Kyle (2010). “Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.

  Sara Zarr

  Bye, Connections, Would Be

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• and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Blow, Moon, Shadow

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “Dreaming of Amelia”, p.578, Pan Macmillan

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• If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving On, Letting Go, Let It Go

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.242, Penguin

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• By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

  Tim O'Brien

  Stories, Facts, Helping

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.

  Kim Harrison

  Long, People, Say Anything

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• When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

  Jennifer Egan

  Real, Fake, Doe

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.35, Anchor

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• Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Why Not

  "Here We Aren't, So Quickly". www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

  Jose Saramago

  Doors, Challenges, Void

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• Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Understanding, Easy

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.107, Penguin

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• They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

  Jennifer Egan

  Eye, Thoughtful, Men

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.274, Anchor

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• We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wish

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• Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Time

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.50, New World Library

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• But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.

  Sarah Dessen

  Promise, Finding Myself, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.158, Penguin

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