Jennifer Egan Quotes

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

I like life to surprise me.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.

Life is all about the unexpected.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

I like to be surprised by life.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

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

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.