In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.
Jane Lindskold
Related His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The scenario right now is that either we win by a narrow margin or they win by a narrow margin. FABRIZIO CICCHITTO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 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LINDA LAPPIN The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's only a coincidence that they happen to be from one conference. We never discussed conference, i... CRAIG LITTLEPAGE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Maybe if I separate the coincidences out, push them further apart, you might believe them more. One ... NICK HORNBY Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of... ZACK LOVE Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. TED TURNER Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I wr... E. L. KONIGSBURG This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do yo... J.K. SIMMONS Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more i... MARA BROCK AKIL Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. CORITA KENT How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... GERMANY KENT Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas. DRIES VAN NOTEN Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those tim... JANE LINDSKOLD ...all men are strange. It's a genetic thing. You are all born with it. How else could you explain t... W SCOTT MITCHELL Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all. KARRINE STEFFANS I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make any sig... ALLAN ADLER You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes. DEBASISH MRIDHA The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. T... ANTHONY HOROWITZ The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth... RENE DENFELD Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. It is a misunderstanding by the villagers. It was a coincidence that the two marines came when the s... DEFENCE MINISTER THAMMARAK ISARANGURA At The Weather Channel, we realize how crucial it is to find a cure for this debilitating disease an... ANN HART The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in contr... PAUL AUSTER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence. STEPHEN KING If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fan... JANE LINDSKOLD I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Is this a coincidence, an example of amazing cluelessness, or something more deliberate? CHARLES JOHNSON Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself. DEJAN STOJANOVIC We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. PAUL AUSTER
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