What Never Happened Quotes

“Funny”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“You have no idea.” I crunch into a taquito.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“ransom even though you’re broke, and it demands that you keep it company even though it’s fused to every molecule in your body. Guilt makes you scream, “What more do you want?” even though it’s already taken everything, including your happily ever after.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Guilt is irrational, Dr. Tamaguchi has told me several times. Guilt demands”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“You have to stop and face your demons before you can win the game. You may get a little bloody, even lose a limb—or a few fingers—but know this.” At a stop sign, he looks over to me. “Running ain’t gonna make it go away.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“You fucked around—and you found out.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. —Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“You’ve survived the worst. Now become the best.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened: A Thriller

“Gwen’s neck swerves. “Wish he would step foot on this island. I’m old but I’ll still cut a bitch. I know people—they old, too, but they got sons and daughters happy to start some shit.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Maddy, with her earbuds in, works the handlebars of an elliptical”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“affects”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Guilt demands ransom even though you’re broke, and it demands that you keep it company even though it’s fused to every molecule in your body. Guilt makes you scream, “What more do you want?” even though it’s already taken everything, including your happily ever after.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Y’know, I cut my finger on a mandoline once. I stole it, so I guess the universe said, ‘Bitch, please.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Ha. This bitch really thinks I trust her.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“At sixteen, she was already over drinking, over “being bad.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Wish he would step foot on this island. I’m old but I’ll still cut a bitch.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“Because promises are potato chips. They’re cheap. Easy to break. Too many hurt your heart.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“And thank you for not laughing at me. People tend to disregard us old ladies—they think we’re only good for sewing robes and making hot chocolate, that we’re crazy since we can no longer bear children. But we’re smarter than everyone because we don’t have distractions anymore. No kids. No husbands for many of us. We always knew the evil that men did, and we still do. Just now, no one believes us.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“We warned you, Colette. You fucked around—and you found out.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened