Meg Rosoff Quotes

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Something will turn up.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

Probability is the very guide of life.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

One shouldn't know the future.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

You never know what the future brings.