Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.
It's funny where life can take you.
Life has a great deal up its sleeve.
You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.
The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
My life/career is more filled with left-field thrills than I could ever have hoped for.
One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.
Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.
For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
History had unexpected duties in store for us.
I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.
Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.
It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.
