Zal Batmanglij Quotes

I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

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.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

You can't decide whom to fall in love with. It just happens.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you.

I'm one of those people - I really feel that you can't go lookin' for love, love will come to you.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

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.

I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.

I never try to look for love but sometimes it finds me.

Everything is destined, I believe... People you meet and end up marrying.

Wherever you go and whomever you meet, you will find your own love waiting for you.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they've ever been in their life, but you can't help who you fall in love with. That's part of the excitement of life - new people, new experiences.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

I was already set for life when I met her.

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.