Quotes About Fate

We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.

If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.

The Lady or The Tiger,' ... 'My lady, the tiger

Choose a future, Balekin had commanded him when he'd first brought Cardan to Hollow Hall. But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.

Do you know what mortal means? It means born to die. It means deserving of death. That's what you are, what defines you—dying.

But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it's gone. The door isn't there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.

I thought love was just supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.

He reaches up and presses my hand to his face. ¨Its funny, isnt it, how i mocked you for your mortality when you´re certain to outlive me.¨ ¨You´re not going to die,¨ I insist. Page 289

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.

Is he going to- will he live?" "No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me." "Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay?

They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever. He can't believe his good fortune, can't trace the path that got him here.

You cannot outrun fate.

The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him.

What does that mean?" The Thistlewitch smiled. "Time will tell. It always does.

There's no way out," she reminded herself. "There's only what you do before you die.

There's no way out, she reminded herself. There's only what you do before you die.

Hole in the head, hole in the heart, or hole in the pocket. The Hall family curse.

What do you want?' I ask, digging in my pockets. I take out the swan-shaped scissors I stole from Habetrot. 'These are pretty.' 'Put them away,' he scoffs. 'It would be an insult to be stabbed by those.' 'Then do not court that fate,' I growl softly...

Nice things don't happen in storybooks,'' Taryn says. ''Or when they happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

I feel all around me the closing of a trap, and yet I do not think I am the one who is meant to be caught.

He cuts his gaze toward his unpredictable mortal High Queen, whose wild brown hair is blowing around her face, whose amber eyes are alight when she looks at him. They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever. He can't believe his good fortune, can't trace the path that got him here.

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I can't believe the land chose me.