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I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

Karen Essex
Past, Visiting, Happened
Karen Essex (2010). “Dracula in Love”, p.309, Anchor

Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

Julian Barnes
Should, Happened, Happens

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

Josh Schwartz
Happened, Happens, Ifs

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Imagine, Happened, Universe
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

Jonathan Safran Foer
Why Not, Happened
"Here We Aren't, So Quickly". www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

John Searles
Book, Firsts, Happened

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

John Green
Happened
John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.101, Penguin

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

John Banville
World, Indifference, Happened

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

Joe Wright
People, Lucky, Happened
Source: www.indiewire.com

I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Joe Cocker
New York, Happened
"Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

Jodi Picoult
Persons, Happened
Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Jodi Picoult
Loss, Remember Something, Happened
Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Jodi Picoult
Miracle, Happened
Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.610, Simon and Schuster

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Jodi Picoult
Happened, Ifs

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

Joan Didion
Levels, Happened
Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.32, Vintage

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

Jim Goad
Prison, Threatening, Happened

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

Jennifer Lynch
People, Realising, Happened

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

Jennifer Egan
Together, Happened
Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.252, Anchor

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.

Jen Kirkman
Happened
Source: www.avclub.com

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

Jeannette Walls
Fall, Dangerous, Happened
Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

What the hell happened to Pluto?!

Jay Asher
Pluto, Hell, Happened
Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?

Jay Asher
Happened

What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max

James Patterson
Max, Dirt, Happened

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

James Fenton
Pages, Century, Happened

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

James A. Owen
Stories, Happened
James A. Owen (2015). “Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.585, Simon and Schuster

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