Quotes About Fate

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

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?

But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun.

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.

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.

If you're disconnected from someone for a long enough time, does blood still commit you to one another? Does history, or fate?

I don't make all the decisions, you know," Isabelle managed to say. "I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

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

Remind customers they must be careful what they wish for, Isabelle instructed. What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

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.

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

She had learned how to make elixirs for fevers and rashes and potions for love, and as it turned out, magic came back to her, not the bloodline magic she'd been born with, but the magic she made for herself. This was the fate she had chosen.

Love begins in curious ways, in daylight or in darkness, when you are in search of it or when you least expect to find it.

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.