Aging Quote by Diana Athill

“Luck is a fickle creature. She loves many, but is faithful to none.”

— Karen Hawkins

“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for…

— Stewart O'Nan

“Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.”

— Susan Patron

“Why did people always think she was so lucky? She worked like the devil to make good things happen.”

— Elise Hooper

“And as I sat and looked at her and the rolling hills she sat upon I thought, what amazing luck I have that the…

— Atticus Poetry

“Life was not a choice. Life was a gift and she would treasure it, no matter what challenges were being thrown her way.”

— Andrea Barbosa

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even…

— Sonja Livingston

“We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted.…

— Kasie West

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“And in life, at least in her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and…

— Veronica Rossi

“Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky