Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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.

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.

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

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

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.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

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.

You never know when the love of your life might just walk in.

You just don't know who you could fall in love with.

There are people for everybody, and luckily, I found mine.

You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.

I always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along - but it was easy. He was the only one that came along.

The guy I'd felt such an immediate and deep connection to I'd thought that just maybe there really were such things as soul mates, and had considered, at least for a few brief moments, that he might be mine.

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

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

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

People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.

I know there really is someone out there for everyone.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.