“It happened. It was frightening and horrible and we both wish it hadn't happened, but it did.”
“I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.”
“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
“Something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't”
“His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.”
“What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.”