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...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

…as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn’t happened.
– Marguerite Duras

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  1. The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. – Marguerite Duras
  2. Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again. – Marguerite Duras
  3. Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic. – Marguerite Duras
  4. You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike. – Marguerite Duras
  5. To write,- Marguerite Duras remarked, -œis also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly. – Terry Tempest Williams
  6. When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more …exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. – Marguerite Duras
  7. So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires. – Seth GrahameSmith
  8. Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  9. The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn’t just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened…it tells you WHY it happened! – Yvonne B Murtha
  10. A deal’s a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price. – Marguerite Bennett
  11. What happens outside you, and what happens inside you – happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds. – Manoj Arora
  12. Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all – John Green
  13. Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
  14. For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence – Jennifer Silverwood
  15. You don’t always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing. – Abby Fabiaschi
  16. I’m Thankful in the knowledge that EVERY moment of this Life has happened For Me…Not one moment has happened TO me. – Raymond D Longoria Jr
  17. Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. – Jorge Luis Borges
  18. It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit. – Larry Kramer
  19. You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. – Liane Moriarty
  20. Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe, that what happened, happened as it should happen when things don’t come as expected. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  21. What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when… – Anne Corlett
  22. What’s happened has happened. You can’t change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future. – Jen Calonita
  23. Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. – Thrity Umrigar
  24. Dr. Suess said: ‘Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened..’ I tell my dates: ‘Don’t cry because it happened, smile because it’s over – Josh Stern
  25. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. – James Baldwin
  26. And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. – John Green
  27. It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story. – Jenny Han
  28. If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened. – Kenneth de Guzman
  29. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs. – Shannon L Alder
  30. There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right? – Dada Bhagwan
  31. It’s such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU. – Steve Maraboli
  32. Nothing happens -˜to’ you, everything happens -˜for’ you. – Linda Deir
  33. There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes. – Kameron Hurley
  34. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
  35. Everything that happens is always for goodAnd that happened to me is for very good – Shashank Rayal
  36. What isn’t remembered never happened.Memory is merely a record…you just need to rewrite that record. – Yoshitoshi ABe
  37. And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind. – Beth Revis
  38. Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you. – Catherynne M Valente
  39. Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. – Charles de Lint
  40. Was your magic carpet out of commission? – Marguerite Kaye

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