Quotes About Destiny

It's a curse to see all that might happen but never know what will.

That which comes cannot be avoided.

Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge? Allie considered this. Meaning? Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads. Or tails, suggested Allie. What are you talking about? said Lief. Life and death.

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again, he told her. And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

You see through the facade of the world, Citra Terranova. You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement.

That which comes can't be avoided.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

I was never going to amount to much anyway, but now, statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Had she lived, who knows what she might have done. Perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. I choose to be Scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that might have been.

He had to live long enough to forge a purpose greater than that.

In the mortal age, death could not be bargained with. It had to be the same for scythes.

How strange to actually have to see the path of your journey in order to make it.

Thou shalt kill.

Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf's back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the moon.

It began the night we died on the Kamikaze.

You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement

Aquilo que vem não pode ser evitado.

As Ariadne led him to the massage tent, Rowan thought, In eight months I am going to die. So perhaps he could allow himself a little indulgence on the way.

Being a dead prophet was much better than being a live one.

If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.

When you know the future...you can either let that future happen to you, or be the one to create it.

I know this sounds weird...but it's like we're all a part of this machine. The things we've done—the things we still have to do—they're all connected.

If a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?