Happened Quotes - Page 35

• There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Children, Grief

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• All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rocks, Years, Two

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked as he swallowed. “It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me.” --Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology

  Cheyenne McCray

  Strong, Real, Heart

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• Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Dream, Lying

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• Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

  Brian Jacques

  Voice, Broken, Old Friends

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

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• How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

  Dave Eggers

  Comforting, World, Found

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.220, Vintage

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• Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh yes, You-Know-Who's snake turned up, it nearly killed both of us, and then You-Know-Who himself arrived and missed us by about a second. Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Snakes, Perspective

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• Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Inspirational, Marriage, Men

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• He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and trousers, and was there thoroughly alarmed by the cat's stalking round and round and making motions as if it proposed to sit upon him. He waited until he believed himself to be unobserved, then he picked it up, opened a window, and tossed it out. Despite falling three storeys to the ground, the cat survived, but one of its legs was never quite right afterward and it always evinced the greatest dislike of gentlemen in black clothes.

  Susanna Clarke

  Fall, Cat, White

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• Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Life Is, Sex Drugs

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Crazy, Order

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

  Michael J. Fox

  Morning, Order, Weather

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• You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Thinking, Decision, Looks

  Mary Downing Hahn (2009). “The Dead Man in Indian Creek”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

  Suze Orman

  Events, Firsts, Good Things

  Suze Orman (1999). “The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying”, p.341, Crown Business

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• What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!

  Haruki Murakami

  Stars, Rain, Book

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.140, Random House

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• I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Night, Hair

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• …I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

  Nick Hornby

  Week

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.141, Penguin

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• But Lunch Isn't That Bad, Really Once I get used to having to eat with two people instead of one. Two people who have known each other for such a long time that they practically speak in code. Two people who are always saying, "Remember the time when this happened?" and "Remember the time when that happened?" (Which, of course, I never do, because I wasn't there.) Well, okay, it is that bad. It sucks, even.

  Sonya Sones

  Two, Lunch, Long

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Looks, Bizarre

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

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• Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction." I gathered that." Step stool, encyclopedias, floor." I see. Well, I can't thank you enough." Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range." Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.

  Lisa McMann

  Fun, Steps, Attention

  "Fade". Book by Lisa McMann, 2009.

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• Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

  Amy Bloom

  Memories, Dark, Two

  Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.44, Random House

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• She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

  Richard Yates

  Selfish, Complicated, Reason

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• In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mistake, Two, Lifetime

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.114, Hachette UK

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