“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”
“I believe I've come to understand something. Love isn't always big and dramatic. It's big, it's deep, but it's also quite and calm.”
“In the real world irrational things happened, impossible coincidences happened, because probability required that coincidences rarely, but not never, occur.”
“A friend of mine once said that she didn't believe in coincidence, that it was God working in her life, not a coincidence every time something unexpected worked out.”
“It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.”
“in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen”