Quotes About Destiny

But then you like to tempt fate, don't you? Don't worry, it will all work out

love is like a train that will keep going at full speed whether you like it or not, so you may as well enjoy the ride. If you try to avoid it, you'll just make everything worse. What's meant to happen will.

We make our own fate," Jet said, and then all at once she realized that they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.

When all was said and done, it was conceivable that a being's purpose remained the same throughout his life, and Eddie's purpose was exactly what it had been when he was a boy, to pursue the light and find what was lost. Page 87

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

Some things aren't destined to be no matter how you might want them.

this occurred only once in a person's life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life

Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.

Some dates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?

To friendship," she agreed, although for the longest time they didn't let go of each other and she knew exactly what he was thinking—This must be fate—for that was what she was thinking as well.

love is like a train that will keep going at full speed whether you like it or not, so you may as well enjoy the ride. If

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

Go," Jet told Franny. "What's meant to happen will.

Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.

Lightening, like love, is never ruled by logic. Accidents happen, and they always will.

Franny was always going to be the one to break the curse. Here was her secret: she loved so deeply the depth could never be charted.

We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die.

If sparrows were meant to fly, and hawks to hunt, and greyhounds to run, then a boy such as Diamond was meant to search for his mother. If he didn't go, if he forgot or thought of himself first, then he wouldn't be Diamond.

Love happens in such a way, Maureen told me. It walks up to you, and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.

There are some things you have only once in a lifetime, and then only if you're lucky.

for things without remedy must be without regard.

She has never told anyone, but she knew as soon as she saw him that she'd marry Ivan. It was less love at first sight than some deep knowledge that he was the man she would someday fall in love with.