Quotes About Fate

But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.

some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.

I didn't think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.

Sabes lo que significa «mortal»? Significa «nacido para morir». Significa «aquel que merece la muerte». Eso es lo que eres, eso es lo que te define: la muerte.

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

And you." "I knew little else, but I always knew you.

He reaches up and presses my hand to his face. 'It's funny, isn't it, how I mocked you for your mortality when you're certain to outlive me.' 'You're not going to die,' I insist. 'Oh, how many times have I wished that you couldn't lie? Never more than now.

At least Oak would not grow up as I have, with death as my birthright

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.

Boldness is rewarded. But what about all those girls, all those obedient girls who trusted and loved and wed and died? Weren't they bold, too?

Let's start with a love story. Or maybe it's another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.

Prince Cardan will be your last born child," the Royal Astrologer said. "He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

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

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.

I curse you," Valerian whispers. "I curse you. Three times, I curse you. As you've murdered me, may your hands always be stained with blood. May death be your only companion. May you-" He breaks off abruptly, coughing. When he stops, he doesn't stir.

The lady or the tiger? My lady, the tiger.

We don't always have a choice in our fate.

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

Sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

I read this book once that said we meet the people we need to meet when we're ready for them. Maybe that's why we met. To try and help each other figure out who we are now.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

And the plan of Zeus was being accomplished.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.