Things Happen Quotes (page 11)

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• sad
• reflection
• people

As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older--Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof. J. K. Rowling

• couple
• friend
• time

For her first summer vacation, my sister went to California with a couple of friends on a package tour put together by her agency. One of the members of the tour group was a computer engineer a year her senior, and she started dating him when they came back to Japan. This kind of thing happens all the time, but it's not for me. First of all, I hate package tours, and the thought of getting serious about somebody you meet in a group like that makes me sick. Haruki Murakami

• surprise
• manly
• surprisingly

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along. Danielle Steel

• time
• memories
• space

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. Paul Auster

• him
• thinking
• happening

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens. George Orwell

• smile her
• emotional
• him

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped form him - as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• wonder
• question
• wonderful

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them? Jodi Picoult

• eyes
• sometimes
• conclusive

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. Jodi Picoult

• people
• thoughts
• real

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ... Edith Wharton

• reading
• wellness
• heart

Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse, did you? No. Well, ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him, had the heart knocked clean out of him. But he hung on and came out of it okay. I've been bashed up pretty good, Mason, but I'm going to make it. S. E. Hinton

• good times
• time
• wind

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time. Dan Millman

• sometimes
• she
• help

It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. Suzanne Collins

• people
• sometimes
• happen

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. Suzanne Collins

• to live
• wanting
• wanted

I want to live where things happen on a big scale. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• soldier
• die
• sometimes

I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk David Eddings