Chances Are . . . Quotes

“What made the contest between fate and free will so lopsided was that human beings invariably mistook one for the other, hurling themselves furiously against that which is fixed and immutable while ignoring the very things over which they actually had some control. Forty-”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .

“Which means you don’t know, Lincoln. You believe. And like all true believers, you reject out of hand anything that undermines your belief.”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .

“But you don’t know that. You believe it. Take it from me, knowledge and belief are two completely different animals.”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .

“Their son had a summer internship at one of the Boston newspapers, they seemed to remember, and after that he’d be attending divinity school, to what end they couldn’t imagine, since they hadn’t raised him to be superstitious.”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .

“What you can’t afford to lose is precisely what the world robs you of. How it knew what you needed the most, just so it could deny you that very thing, was a question for philosophers. Answer it and you’d”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .