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“Fate goes ever as fate must.”
“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 us―because the only thing more powerful than fate is free will.”
“Thus Time, and all-states-ordering CeremonyHad banished all offense: Time’s golden thighUpholds the flowery body of the earthIn sacred harmony, and every birthOf men and actions makes legitimate,Be...”
“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 h...”
“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.”
“I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoi...”
“At the end of the day,” he continued, “although many believe in fate, it’s those who go through life with independent thought alone who are the strongest.”
“Truth is the irony of fate.”
“He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it," he says later.”
“Fate. Sounds romantic.”“You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.”
“But they are many and he is alone.This has not come to pass yet, he thinks, this is not happening. I am not dying. This is my fate, what shall be. This is the future, it has not happened yet.”
“Attend to your own fate.”
“Fate.A word meaning destiny.Fate. A word meaning doom.”
“What befalls me couldn’t have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.”
“To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.”
“Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”
“Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.”
