happening Quotes

“Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? ”

“Nothing happens in the ‘real’ world unless it first happens in the images in our heads”

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

“There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and does -- maybe more.”

“She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”

“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen.”

“What’s happening tonight, it’s no little thing. Nobody backing out now remains healthy. No exceptions.”

“There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people’s lives, but if someone doesn’t leap in and answer the call to pray, it won’t happen.”

“Things are always happening to me. I’m that sort of bear.”

“the dish run[ning] away with the spoon,” and imagines what happens next.

“After James Henry Trotter had been living with his aunts for three whole years there came a morning when something rather peculiar happened to him.”

Just your typical ‘move into an old creepy house, weird stuff starts happening, one of the kids gets blamed, and then they find a book that explains the existence of fairies/faeries/fey which solves their problems... while at the same time causing many more problems’. Happens every day.

Just your typical ‘move into an old creepy house, weird stuff starts happening, one of the kids gets blamed, and then they find a book that explains the existence of fairies/faeries/fey which solves their problems... while at the same time causing many more problems’.

″ No one is prepared; no one can quite believe what is happening.”

“For a moment they sat thinking about it, and about what would have happened if they had travelled to Germany.”

“Magic. Magic had happened to him. He knew it would one day. He had always believed in magic, even when the others had laughed at him, laughed because he was the eldest and ought to know better.”

“ah, life-the thing that happens to us while we’re off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales.”