Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. Herodotus
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. Harold Nicolson
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences. Gene Wolfe
And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later... Kazuo Ishiguro
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. Virginia Woolf
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. Arthur Conan Doyle