Troy Denning Quotes

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

I'm a believer in karma, and I'm also a believer that things happen for a reason.

There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.

Everything happens for a reason, and hopefully it makes me a better person in the process.

I just look back at my entire life. You know, my faith. I knew that I was where I was supposed to be.

I really believe that some things happen for a reason, and they make you a better person.

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

Everything happens at the perfect time, man. You may not realize it. But now I do.

Everything is happening for a reason, it's preparing you for bigger things.

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.