Janice Erlbaum > Quotes

“When you think of yourself as lucky, you notice all the good things in your life. You see all the connections between what you do and what happens next. You watch the amazing, mysterious, coincidental ways the world works, and you will be awestruck" -Aunt Jenny”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things

“This was exactly what I was starting to notice: how everything was related, how the bad things that happened sometimes led to good things later" -Emma”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things

“Funny how unlucky events can lead to lucky ones -Emma”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things

“The letter will tell you to write down ten things you want to happen, because that's the first step to getting what you want in life: deciding what that is. Some of those things will happen for you, some won't, and some will turn into things you don't want anymore" -Aunt Jenny”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things

“Luck, I was starting to realize, comes in many flavors." -Emma”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things

“...luck is not a thing that happens to you. Luck is everything that happens to you. The good, the bad, the in-between. And luck is what you make happen. Luck is how you see the events of your life and how you respond to them" -Aunt Jenny”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things

“C’était précisément ce que je commençais à remarquer de mon côté : comment tout était lié, comment les mauvaises choses qui se produisaient parfois débouchaient finalement sur de bonnes surprises.”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things

“I'd been thinking of luck as 'things I wanted to happen', but luck was also 'preventing things I didn't want to happen'" - Emma”
― Janice Erlbaum, Lucky Little Things