Alexander Chee Quotes

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

The 'Star Wars' saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.

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

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I don't really push myself upon people. I don't have that. When it meets and things fall in line, it's meant to happen. It's happened that way. I just try to do my best and do my work, and then it falls in line.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]