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“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them”
“Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.”
“But, I get this feeling that if I stay close to you, I'll find what I'm looking for”
“From this moment forth, my sword shall be with you and your fate shall be with me.”
“By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!”
“This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.”
“I had started to desire power, because what I now realised was that other people had had it all along, that what I called fate was merely the reverberation of their will, a tale scripted not by som...”
“The truth is, our parents are but part of the equation that forms usbecause the only thing more powerful than fate is free will.”
“Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.”
“Thus Time, and all-states-ordering CeremonyHad banished all offense: Times golden thighUpholds the flowery body of the earthIn sacred harmony, and every birthOf men and actions makes legitimate,Bei...”
“I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.”
“You are here because Fate invited you. You cannot go back the way you came. I suggest you go forward instead.”
“There's a Chinese saying that the fates are winds that blow through our lives from every angle, urging us along the paths of time. Those who are strong-willed may fight the storm and possibly choos...”
“And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to ev...”
“A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they were being hauled in. The tractor was inescapable, and they knew it. The shuttles small yet pote...”
“It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate.”
“I'll see you soon. I promise.And there is, that moment, a shock of recognition. Elijah doesn't even know yet what he is recognizing. There is only the shock. The sense. That feeling of something ha...”
“While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this s...”
“I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.”
“Fate is a cruelly sweet fruit.”