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  1. Richmond Lattimore

    Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard
    lifephilosophyfatehomer

  2. Jean M. Auel _ The Mammoth Hunters

    You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.
    book-quotelovefatedestiny

  3. Pearl S. Buck _ My Several Worlds

    Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
    book-quoteunderstandingself-determinationignorance

  4. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself.
    book-quotelifecontrolfate

  5. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed."If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'dbeen kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now.
    book-quotehappinessperfectionfate

  6. Nora Roberts _ Born in Fire

    Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.
    book-quotefatenora-robertsniall

  7. Joan Didion _ The White Album

    We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.
    book-quotefatemeaninglesssilent-generation

  8. Daniel Abraham _ Rogues

    Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.
    book-quotelovefate

  9. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Game of Kings

    But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
    book-quotefatescotlanddespised

  10. Stephanie Perkins _ Anna and the French Kiss

    And then there's the other thing.The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.And he's standing in front of me right now.So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?Screw it. Let the fates decide.How's that for a generalization? I open my eyes, and the wind is blowing harder. St. Clair pushes a strand of hair from his eyes. "Must have been a good one," he says.
    book-quotewishfatewishes

  11. Lawrence Durrell _ Justine

    For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its true potential - the imagination.
    book-quotelovefatecreativity

  12. William Shakespeare _ Hamlet

    If it be now, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come-the readiness is all.
    book-quotefatethe-readiness-is-all
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