“Things never happen like I imagined them”

“Things never happened like I imagined them.”

“Things never happened like I imagined them" - Pudge (Looking For Alaska)”

“That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists”

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”