Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Paths that cross will cross again

He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.

Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.

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.

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

I always say there are no coincidences.

The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

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

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us.

I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.

Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.

I'm not really into destiny, but it's funny - I bumped into a woman who told me about an audition, and now I have a BAFTA.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.