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Quotes About Fate

My mother has forbidden it. Because of the prophecy." "What prophecy?" I had not heard of this. "That I will be the best warrior of my generation.
~ Madeline Miller
The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I could follow, even into death. Yes , I whispered. Yes.
~ Madeline Miller
Iphigenia. A tripping name, the sound of goat hooves on rock, quick, lively, lovely.
~ Madeline Miller
There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles," Chiron said. "And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone. Do you think?
~ Madeline Miller
Briséis, lui répondis-je. S'il meurt, je le suivrai de près.
~ Madeline Miller
For like Phoinix I am declared already, decided. I am no longer to guide the course, merely to be carried into darkness and beyond, with only Achilles' hands at the helm.
~ Madeline Miller
But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist it.
~ Madeline Miller
He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain.
~ Madeline Miller
Good." Carelessly, as if to herself, she added, "You will be dead soon enough." She turned and dove into the sea, leaving no ripples behind her.
~ Madeline Miller
Héctor debía vivir, porque su vida, pensé mientras retrocedía a gatas sobre la hierba, era el hito final antes de que corriera la sangre del mismísimo Aquiles.
~ Madeline Miller
The death I had put into his hand.
~ Madeline Miller
It was fated long ago, fated a hundred different ways.
~ Madeline Miller
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
~ Unknown
If you had your time all over again....? She was keen to know. You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.
~ Maeve Binchy
We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.
~ Maggie Nelson
But if I were honest, or if I were at least to bump into the limits of my honesty, I would have to admit that I knew exactly how this love would end from the moment it began. The loss was probably before it was possible.
~ Maggie Nelson
I suppose it is possible that one day we will meet again and it will feel as if nothing ever happened between us.
~ Maggie Nelson
Uno de los hombres pregunta «¿por qué azul?». La gente me pregunta eso con frecuencia. Nunca sé cómo responder. No podemos elegir qué o a quién amamos, quisiera decir. Simplemente no elegimos.
~ Maggie Nelson
The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.
~ Maggie Nelson
Morirse será así, notar que algo se acerca y que no se puede evitar?
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Karn?m burnumdayken gittiÄŸim partide bir kad?n doÄŸum uzman?yla tan??m??t?m. Hafiften aÄŸz? kayarak, bir s?r verir gibi "Bu doÄŸum iÅŸlerinde ya her ÅŸey yolunda gider ya da her ÅŸey batar" deyip kadehiyle karn?m? göstermiÅŸti. "Aras? yoktur".
~ Maggie O'Farrell
For the pestilence to reach Warwickshire, England, in the summer of 1596, two events need to occur in the lives of two separate people, and then these people need to meet.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Hamnet wills that it is Judith that is to live.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
You see, she says to him, you cannot change what you are given, cannot bend or alter what is dealt to you.
~ Maggie O'Farrell