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“Maybe that’s what makes it so hard. When you spend years thinking and dreaming about someone and have them fall back into your life? Sounds like fate to me.”
“What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.”
“Sometimes life isn’t what we want, it’s what we get.”
“The tram’s fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!”
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.”
“I’ve found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma, whatever it was that made this happen to me and not them. I’m in the wo...”
“The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.”
“Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.”
“Fate is a funny thing, isn’t it?”
“And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.”
“You don’t tap on the Devil’s shoulder unless you’re willing to dance to his tune.”
“You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.Lost, injured, hurt by chance.I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...”
“Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like”
“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.”
“I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.”
“This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But n...”
“Every person makes a difference. And the choices we make, the things we do—they matter.” She looked up into Will’s eyes. “And now I do believe in fate. Especially the kind we make ourselves.”
“I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.”
“Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break throughMeaning if someone loves you and its meant to be but for unknown reasons it seems to be over would you somehow get fatalistic messages t...”
