Quotes About Serendipity

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know?

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.

This was merely the malignant hand of coincidence.

Everyone knows you never find love when you go looking for it. You have to wait for it to find you.

Like, if you're right for someone then shouldn't everything fall into place really easily..?

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Chance favors the prepared." — Louis Pasteur

Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

Our time on Earth is so random.

He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.