“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.”
“I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.”
“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
“Fuck. This was bad. It had happened, hadn't it? The thing she thought would never happen, the thing she was always so careful not to have happen. She'd lost count, she'd lost track of what exactly she'd taken, and it had happened.”
“It happened. It was frightening and horrible and we both wish it hadn't happened, but it did.”
“Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.”