Quotes About Destiny

Tui T. Sutherland

Tui T. Sutherland

Tui T. Sutherland

Yes, Sunny," said Thorn, her voice falling like drops of water into the stillness between them. "It's because you're half NightWing.

Oh, Moonwatcher, my new favorite dragon. This dragonet with her brain full of bubbles is not your only possibility. I believe you and I are destined for a great friendship.

This just proves what I've always said," Tsunami observed. "Who needs a prophecy to tell you how to make an awesome destiny?

Something is coming to shake the earth. (That was definitely Darkstalker, rising from his prison.) Something is coming to scorch the ground. (He was pretty sure this was Darkstalker, too.) Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice. (Why? When? How soon?) Unless the lost city of night can be found.

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trailed after them and Starflight reluctantly brought up the rear. He glanced back once and saw Fatespeaker huddled into her wings, a small drenched shape beside the vast bulk of Morrowseer. He hoped his friends would welcome her as the new NightWing when he was gone. I'm about to die, he thought, and I never got to tell Sunny I love her. I'm going to die without saving the world, without stopping the war … without ever doing one brave thing in my life.

Tui T. Sutherland

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Right, she remembered. They don't know yet that I'm Important. They don't realize that soon everyone will know my name, or that I can save them from so many horrible things.

Tui T. Sutherland

Tui T. Sutherland

There are some midshipmen who will never have the decency to lie down and die, whatever the circumstances. Because they are born to be hanged, no doubt,' added the lieutenant darkly.

certainly. Would

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

Everything's explained by the constant intervention of Allah. And whatever happens had to happen, and was decreed at the beginning of time, and there's no way of even imagining how anything could have been different from what it is.

The need is not always the call.

God likes his women with a firm will that aligns with his will. Strong, courageous women who get in line with the will of God are destined to change their corner of the world.

None of us is going to get out of this world alive.

Because for all of his big frame, loud voice and quick smile, Lou Gehrig was one of those strange souls born to be frustrated, to have glory and happiness always within his reach, yes, even to have it in his grasp, only to have it snatched away from him.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.