Sarah Dessen Quotes

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

My life is so random. Certain things I can't even explain. There's a thing about being lucky and... I feel like certain things are just, like, in your cards. I'm just walking the path that's already set.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

There is always room for coincidence.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'