Serendipitous Event Quotes

Chance is a second master.

Heaven alone knows why I won it.

Error itself may be happy chance.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.

For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving