Quotes About Fate

Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

Acaso es culpa mía haber nacido para ser heroína? Todo el mundo representa el papel que se le ha sido asignado, fin del cuento.

Then let me have my destiny, whatever it is. Don't break the world before I can find my own path!

The only guarantee we are given when we are born is that we will die.

Josh: Just because you're not looking for something doesn't mean you won't find it. Sean: Well, aren't you quite the fucking fortune cookie.

Instead of someday meeting the woman he was meant to spend the rest of his life with, maybe he'd simply met her again.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family

Destiny is measured in inches.

Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends.

I never thought to see you again, I never thought to seek you.

nothing is random. The Universe knows what's happening, and what's needed, even when we do not.

I think my sacrifice was a counterweight in the great balance of justice. Because I was willing to give so much, Seka was willing to give so much. My actions in some sense inspired hers, even though neither of us knew what the other was planning. She probably slipped from camp with Mally in her arms the minute I swallowed the fatal dose. The universe loves such symmetry.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing — I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.

terrible fates are inevitable

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

Now I understood there was something stronger than fate. Choice. It was ugly and quotidian and lacked romance, and that was exactly what gave it its strength.

It's charity." Baba reluctantly lifted his eyes from the jumble of scrolls piled on a shadowed shelf. "What is?" "The liquor. The men meet their fates half giddy. They barely know what is happening. Didn't the Japanese do the same?" "They didn't have firing squads." My father couldn't keep the sneer out of his voice.

But if my fate is truly my fate, then trying to escape it by doing whatever I can to make my life resemble some more beautiful thing will only lead me more quickly to the place I most fear. If there can be no escape from who I am, then I ought to reach my end honestly, able to tell myself, at least, that I have lived it with all of my being, making choices and deciding, and walking the whole way.

What power a girl can have over a boy, to make him write such things! And what power a boy can have over a girl, to make her believe he has seen her fate. We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

It wasn't that Mira had met her in some previous life. It was that she was meeting her in this one-and isn't that rare! Why is it so hard to meet in this life? But the deeper question was: What was one supposed to do with such people? Fuck them, love them, or leave them alone? Yet they seemed to call out to be acted upon.

Why did we find it so irresistible to make ourselves into tragic figures with tragic flaws which were responsible for our pain? Maybe unfortunate things just happened; maybe there was just bad luck.

In this book, all results from the flipping of coins result from the flipping of actual coins.