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“It’s almost as if we don’t need to live our lives or feel our feelings at all, because someone already told us what the ending was going to be.”
“Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you. For someone who doesn’t believe in fate, destiny and all that shit, you seem to s...”
“We're not reinventing the wheel. We're just rolling it down our own path.”
“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.”
“Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.”
“Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its gl...”
“A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....”
“The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. In fate love some extra au...”
“The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.”
“When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?”
“Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we’re not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the ...”
“I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)”
“But, Mameha-san, I don’t want kindness!”“Don’t you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you’re in no positio...”
“Once we’ve savored the goodness of a hundred years until the final drop, only the fleeting memories of intoxication is left behind. Between you and me is it too much to ask for a bottle to begin with?”
“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.”
“None of us really know what we’re doing,” Dia replied. “We just go out there and do it and have faith it’ll turn out okay.”
“The crowded city streets, the chaos of disorderly lives – nothing could keep her from wreaking love. She always wanted to let go, and I always wanted to own. She always had it coming, and I never h...”
“The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it's purposeful, we can fight it, it's hard to defeat, but we have a ch...”
“Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily l...”
“You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.”
