Happened Quotes - Page 40

• I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Forever, Bathroom, Praying

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• Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Father, Next Day, Feelings

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

  Ray Bradbury

  Ignorance, People, World

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Moving, Rivers, Singing

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.45, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fear, Memories, Real

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

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• Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.

  Julia Quinn

  Cutting, Kissing, Men

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• In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Writing, Hunting

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• Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Memories, Race, Years

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• When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Divorce, Light, People

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• If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

  Claudia Gray

  Love, Lying, Romance

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• (Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?" "You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right?

  Simone Elkeles

  Bleeding, Faces, Busted

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• It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

  Justin Cronin

  Two, World, Thirty

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.192, Ballantine Books

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• He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Alive

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• What if one of her father’s soldiers panicked and fired for no reason? Though pilots were carefully trained, mistakes happened and she didn’t want to be included in a statistics report under “uh-oh, my bad.”’ (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Mistake, Soldier

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, Macmillan

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• What happened to Darling’s face? (Kiara) It got his. Repeatedly. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Faces, Darling

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• I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Night, Worship You

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• I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Way, Happenings

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart. "What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?" A thin wailing came from Brightpaw, which gradually formed into words. Fireheart stared at her in horror as he made out what she was trying to say. "Pack, pack," she whispered. "Kill, kill.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Trying, Horror

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• The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told.

  Javier Marías

  Shining, Truth Is, Remains

  Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (2000). “A Heart So White”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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• So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it’s capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Holes, Wells, Ifs

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• Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head on one side, a story on the other. Someone you loved and what happened. That's all there is when you dig in your pockets. The most significant thing is someone else's face. What else is embossed on your hands but her?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Adventure, Thinking, Hands

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• [O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

  Joan Didion

  Blessing, Twenties, Three

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 07, 2011

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• Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

  Kingsley Amis

  Art, Philosophy, Light

  Kingsley Amis (1978). “Jake's Thing”, Hutchinson Radius

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• No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Song, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• How is Eric?' 'Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.' 'Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.' 'Oh. Well ... great.' She hung up.

  Charlaine Harris

  House, Eric, Warning

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.175, Penguin

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