Occurred Quotes
565 Occurred quotes by 476 unique authors
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And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should…
— N.K. Jemisin
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Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to…
— Tom Stoppard
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I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would be an elaborate…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I can't believe you've been here all day and didn't come visit. ", Tatiana said. "Aw, I figured you had more important things to do…
— Richelle Mead
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That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,…
— Hannah Arendt
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Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding…
— Yukio Mishima
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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by…
— George Orwell
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...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,…
— David Foster Wallace
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like…
— Donald Miller
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Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to…
— Rick Riordan
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Then something occurred to me. "Get closer," I told Blackjack. He whinnied in protest. "Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to…
— Rick Riordan
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He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't…
— Julian Barnes
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It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.
— Lisa Kleypas
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I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working…
— Kathryn Stockett
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