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“I’m not sure if fate or destiny is real. But I can tell you that sometimes the very thing you’ve been hoping for will walk through the door, determined to fend you off. And still, somehow, you will...”
“Life is about making mistakes. If you don’t take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you’re not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry....”
“,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.”
“Even the dry and dusty arid desert air could not get her sweet perfume out of his nostrils. That one night was all it took. She stole his heart; he could do nothing about it, but accept his fate.”
“But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.”
“It’s too late for you Wilhelmina Grimm, great great great granddaughter of Wilhelm Grimm.”
“Insanity, thy name is woman”
“Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence...”
“Sometimes our fate – our destiny turns out to be something we had never thought of.”
“I don’t think I believe in any god,” Merla said. “I think we make our own destiny. I think religion is superstition. Does that shock you?”Agata shook her head and smiled. “If the Goddess is kind, t...”
“I’ve learned that you cannot fulfill your destiny if you’re not being yourself; you can’t fulfill your destiny, trying to be somebody else. We are created unique not so that we can fit in, but so t...”
“The art of statemanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”
“How can I possibly stop loving you when it's sort of predestined? — Malcom Lowry to Carol Brown, 1926 (age 16)”
“That’s just the way it goes when you’re going to meet your destiny. Something comes over you and it keeps your heart so stirred that nothing seems impossible… Well, except for sleep, or taking your...”
“We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.”
“That it was no doubt a dark hour, but that he should get through it; that after all he held his destiny, evil as it might be, in his own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to that thought.”
“Why do you suppose I’m here?” I asked him. Angel. A thirteen-year-old departed gangbanger. “Just ’cause you’re supposed to be, I guess.”
“I had a dream about you, and in the dream you were dreaming of me. We were meant for each other subconsciously.”
“Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn’t dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.”
“Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors -- he told them -- appointed to the work by the period of history, the place, and their own natural dispositions. In their cases, it was simply a quest...”
