Quotes About Destiny

Are you certain she's the one? Emme whispered. Do you just know it, Vittorio? In your soul, where you live, do you just know?

I was born to be with you, Kate. You're supposed to be some kind of a magical woman, filled with the second sight, yet you don't see what's right in front of you. Why is that?

The gate will swing open in welcome for the man who is destined to become the love of the eldest child's life.

Gregori wanted her. More than that, he needed her. That particular revelation changed everything. It put control back in her hands, gave her back her life. She squared her shoulders. She was no longer a child running from a nameless fear. She was his lifemate, chosen by God to walk with a man of power, of honor. A sensual, strong male who needed her more than anyone else on earth ever could.

She was his. The lifemate he had endured centuries of emptiness waiting for. She was his world. The light. The colors he thought he had lost forever. She was the ecstasy he never knew existed. And she was with him for eternity.

A lifemate. After all these centuries, after never believing. Why in the world would he be chosen for such a thing? Out of all the Carpathian males he knew, men who religiously followed the rules, why would he find a lifemate? He was practically an outlaw.

What had he done to try to save himself? Nothing. He'd done nothing. He'd let fate decide, closing his eyes and giving himself up to the judgment of the universe.

How old do you think I am, Alexandria? Aidan asked softly. I have lived over eight hundred years now. You are irrevocably bound to me. Is it such a terrible fate? For a moment there was silence. Then she was smiling at him. Ask me again in a hundred years. I'll tell you then.

Life certainly changes, doesn't it? she asked her birth father. One moment you feel there is no hope, no way out, and the next, the entire world opens up for you. Razvan reached for Ivory's hand. That is the truth, Skyler.

He was born a shadow rider and trained from the time he was two. There was no other job or interest for him. It was considered a sacred duty and no rider, if he was capable, would ever walk away from it, no matter how difficult.

I'm so broken, Jackson. Inside and out. I don't know who I am anymore. You don't have to do this. His mouth tightened. His jaw set and a muscle ticked there. He stared her down without blinking. Make no mistake, Elle, I'm helping because I do have to do this. You're mine. You were always meant for me . . .

I am Jacques. I am your lifemate. There is no question that I can share your mind. It is my right, as it is yours to share mine. More than a right, it is a necessity for us both.

I would have found you. There was complete confidence in his infuriating, beautiful voice. You know I would have found you. Then there will be a battle between us. Now there was a smoky edge to his laughter. There has never been a war to fight between us, there never will be. We are two halves of the same whole.

I am your other half. We belong together.

Have you been hanging out with Father Mulligan again? He's always handing out that two-cent advice of his. He only charged you two cents? He made me fill his poor box, Nicolae said, straight-faced. And he didn't offer a single word on marriage. He just said to have courage, whatever that meant. Destiny burst out laughing. The old fraud, he probably said that on purpose just to make me crazy.

Nikolae. It always came back to him. His thoughtfulness. His attention to detail. For some reason, the thought made Destiny blush wildly and she had to duck her head to conceal her thoughts from the priest. There was no concealing them from Nikolae. Details are important , he agreed in his black velvet voice, implying all sorts of things. Lightning is going to strike you if you keep that up in front of a holy man. Let us go where I am much safer, then.

Go out the same way you came in, Father Mulligan pleaded. Just one more time, for me. Destiny glanced at Nicolae, who raised an eyebrow at her. His lips twitched with suppressed laughter. Together they melted into vapor, then rushed out beneath the small crack in the door while the priest laughed delightedly.

For the first time in centuries of living, Mikhail was forced to rely on another being. Gregori. The dark one. A royal pain in the neck. I read your thoughts, my friend. Mikhail stirred, pain shafting through him. More rocks fell on Slovensky in retaliation, covering him like a blanket, beginning to form a macabre grave. As you were meant to.

I have come to believe that fate hands us our destiny. Maybe I needed to endure the things in my life to be worthy of traveling by your side. Maybe you needed to endure your life in order to fulfill a great destiny. What we did shaped us and honed us into what we are now.

Do you believe there is hope for their race?" The priest made the sign of the cross on her forehead, on the insides of each of her wrists. "You are their hope, Raven. Don't you know that?

She moved him in ways he had never expected. He took her hand and raised it to his mouth to press a kiss into the center of her palm. Solnyshko moya, you are asking an impossible task of me. I am incapable of giving you this thing you desire. I am a hunter of men. That's who I am. She shook her head. You're my man. That's who you are.

You never hear the bomb that's got your name on it.

WE ARE BORN IN THE WILDS OF DARKNESS AND DIE ON THE PATHWAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT.

There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means--not that it really 'means' anything--is, 'There by the grace of God goes someone else.