Quotes About Fate

Everyone wants to believe that there's something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.

Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.

C'est la vie

All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.

No one's future is certain. It depends on the choices they make.

Who plans on falling in love? It simply happens. We cannot stop it, however much we might try.

But fate was a myth constructed by fools—people who gamble or follow horoscopes, who believe the stars rule their lives.

Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I am in my god's hands. He will keep me safe, or he will not, here or on the stairs.

Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.

Ask yourself, Eugenides: why that orange tree? Why that tamarisk bush? She had promised you your heart's desire while a child of hers was alone in the world and unhappy. See, Eugenides," Moira said, holding out a finger from each of her hands and interlinking them. "Only two threads brought together, two threads that touched," she reassured him. "Nothing more than that. And everything else left up to you.

He shrugged. We all spend our time under the sign of the idiot, he said, and the matter seemed settled, at least as far as he was concerned.

If I am a pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make up my mind for me. Eddis, The Queen of Attolia

Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then...

It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.

We are bonded now. We will face it together. Your destiny is mine as well. We shall live or die together.

Once the bond was sealed, it could not be broken for this cycle. Schuyler would become nothing more than a distant memory.

Choice," Charles cursed. "A romantic notion, but nothing more.

Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. -Kingsley

We're all trapped. I'm as trapped as they are. The more Ben thought about it, the more he knew it was true. He hadn't chosen to be born a prince and become a king, just as they hadn't chosen who their parents were. They were prisoners for a crime they themselves had not committed. That was the greater crime, wasn't it? It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living in a fairy tale someone else wrote.

Why us? How did we luck into this life? How is that fair? To be born into a life without a choice in the matter, without the freedom to be anyone else?

life itself is a glorious opportunity.