“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had ever slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions” ChildrenDestinyGirlsWomens RightsWomens Empowerment Book:Down Among the Sticks and Bones Source: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change” DestinyFuture Book:Across the Green Grass Fields Source: Across the Green Grass Fields
“Clay shaped into a cup was not always destined to become a drinking vessel; it was simply shaped by someone too large to be resisted. She was not clay, but she had been shaped by her circumstances all the same, not directed by any destiny” Destiny Book:Across the Green Grass Fields Source: Across the Green Grass Fields