Quotes of: Happens Keyword

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

Ghost Town

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

Going Underground

Don’t be afraid to take a chance. The worst that can happen is that you don’t succeed … this time.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

Hollow City

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

When you trust your gut, follow your heart, and use your head, magic happens!

The Happy Medium: Awakening to Your Natural Intuition

-"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?” -“If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg White?” -“Okay, the second-best thing.

Audrey, Wait!

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened—how we all became so imperfect.

Are We There Yet?

A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you should really feel this rug!

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appear...

Blasphemy

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

The Body in the Library

? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them.” Margaret Bouchard

The Bouchard Legacy

I can accept no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake.

Broken People

This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the toilet at six am while you're holding a pile of fingernail clipping like a Santeria priestess.

Bossypants

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories

That's the kind of trouble you get when diverse groups of people actually cross paths with one another. That's why many of the worst things in the world happen in and around Starbucks bathrooms.

Bossypants

One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.

Brave New World

Yeah but I don’t know how to make myself go there. Maybe it might never happen again. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

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