That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
Things can’t stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That’s the way it’s supposed to happen.
There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?
That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
My retelling of events to Zoe is what grounds them, shapes them, makes them real. If I can't tell Zoe about kissing Danny Spinelli, it didn't happen.
Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.
Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you.
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange
You are capable of doing everything you are afraid of doing, If only you would energize and motivate the Magical thing would absolutely happen to you!
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.
But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
