Bets Quote by Paolo Bacigalupi

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Karen Hawkins

“She had realized something over the recent months: it didn’t matter who you were or what you’d accomplished in life; none of that mattered…

— Lindy Zart

“In my heart, I knew that only the lucky found that sort of happiness. And I had always run short on luck.”

— S.H. Kolee

“If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck.”

— Gary Paulsen

“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could…

— Lauren Oliver

“You trust to luck. You are not about to master your fate.”

— Richard Hugo

“She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to…

— Justin Cronin

“... maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first. The…

— Donna Tartt

“She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.”

— Crystal Woods

“I could only lose her if, from this moment forward, I made wrong choices, or if she made them. But I would take those…

— Dean Koontz

“Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took awhile for it to sink in. You don't feel anything at first. The…

— Donna Tartt