“Things never happened like I imagined them" - Pudge (Looking For Alaska)”
“Things never happened like I imagined them.”
“Things never happen like I imagined them”
“That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
“Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.”
“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”