Happened Quotes - Page 40

• That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

  Jennifer Egan

  Together

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.252, Anchor

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• I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Body, Feels

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• History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

  Julian Barnes

  Historian

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• She did not want to be that woman - the one of whom they spoke. She had never planned to be that woman. Somehow, it had happened, however...somehow, she had lost her way and, without realizing it, she had chosen this staid, boring life instead of a different, more adventurous one.

  Sarah MacLean

  Different, Want, Way

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?

  Cassandra Clare

  Coincidence, Building, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1387, Simon and Schuster

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• He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Battle, Privacy

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.46, 谷月社

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• I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

  Emma Donoghue

  Looks, Holes, More Time

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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• [Kagura is doing laundry and tries to wring out Kyou's shirt, causing it to rip in two]
  Kyo Sohma: Tell me what I think just happened didn't just happen!
  Kagura: My love!
  Kyo Sohma: My shirt!

  Natsuki Takaya

  Rip, Thinking, Two

  "Fruits Basket". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

  Nicole Krauss

  Letters, Said

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

  David Eddings

  Swimming, Rocks, Feet

  David Eddings (1982). “Queen of Sorcery”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.

  Susan Cooper

  Uncles, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, News, Want

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• Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dad, People, Stories

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.59, Penguin

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• Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Blood, Arrows

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin the world. You know, that amazing feeling that you're whole, that you've got everything you want, that you aren't missing anything. Sometimes when I wake up, I get it for just a moment. It lasts a few seconds, but then I remember what happened, and how nothing has been the same since

  Ben Sherwood

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Ben Sherwood (2004). “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud”, p.110, Bantam

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• I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them once before. Poseidon was under siege and losing a war against the sea Titan Oceanus. Kronos was still out there somewhere. Olympus was virtually undefended. The demigods of Camp Half-Blood were on our own with a spy in our midst. Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen—which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. Almost forgot that.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, War, Fighting

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• Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Shadow, Tables

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• When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Dream, Play, Decision

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• but it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.

  Melissa Marr

  Middle, Wells, Feels

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• I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me, and I’d been stun gunned. The cobwebs cleared, and I discounted stun gunning. “What happened?” I asked Morelli. “You fainted.” “That’s ridiculous.” “I agree, but if someone sent me a dead woman I might faint, too.” He was down on one knee, bending over me. “Are you ready to get up?” “I need a moment.” “Don’t take too long. People will think I’m proposing.

  Janet Evanovich

  Revenge, Thinking, Long

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.619, Bantam

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• As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

  David Nicholls

  Thailand, Littles, Too Much

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• At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

  Donald Miller

  Years, Forgiving, Mckinley

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.

  Eoin Colfer

  Morning, Awake, Every Morning

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.21, The O'Brien Press

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• Daddy looked at her hard, and right before my eyes, he changed. I watched him inflate again, shake off his own emotions and puff himself up for her. Become her man. Her rock. I smiled. I loved him so much. He'd dragged mom kicking and screaming from grief once before and I knew I could rest easy that he would never let grief steal her from him again. No matter what happened to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Grief, Eye

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.826, Dell

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