unusual happenings Quotes

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.