“Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.”

“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

“People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.”

“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!”

“Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing. -- "The Higher Power of Lucky”