Anita Shreve Quotes

Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

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.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.