Unforeseen Destinations Quotes

For the warrior of light there are no ends, only means. Life carries him from unknown to unknown. Each moment is filled with this thrilling mystery: the warrior does not know where he came from or where he is going.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.

What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.