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“An cinniúnt, is dócha: féach an féileacán úd thall atá ag foluain os cionn mo choinnle. Ní fada go loiscfear a sciatháin mhaiseacha: cá bhfios dúinne nach bhfuil a fhios sin aige, freisin?”

Book:An Chéad Chloch

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“I was coming up on a cross street when a man wearing a filthy suit stepped out from around the corner of the building ahead and directly into my path. Bent with age, he turned bleak red eyes to me and stared. Pressed with his chest to both hands he carried a paperback book as soiled and bereft as his suit. Are you one of the real ones or not? he demanded. And after a moment, when I failed to answer, he walked on, resuming his sotto voce conversation. A chill passed through me. Somehow, indefinably, I felt, felt with the kind of baffled, tacit understanding that we have in dreams , that I had just glimpsed one possible future self.”

Life Fate Alternative Selves

Book:Black Hornet

Source: Black Hornet

“Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”

Chance Fate Meaning Determinism

Book:The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“When she greets you in the morning, that's just common politeness. When she drops her handkerchief in front of you, that's carelessness. And when a girl at your part-time job gives you her e-mail address, it's because she wants you to cover her shift. I don't believe in coincidence, fate, or destiny. All you can believe in are company orders.”

Fate Pessimism Failed Relationships

Book:やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。5

Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。5

“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”

Fate

Book:Indiscretion

Source: Indiscretion

“So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand) Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years Or is it just pop emotion (handed down and made by hand) And if it ever was there and it left Does it mean it was never true And to exist it must elude Is that why I think these things of you?”

Fate Mystery

Author:Emily Saliers

“Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.”

Life Fate Choose Governed

Book:Life Is Simply A Game

Source: Life Is Simply A Game

“And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates. The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.”

Fate Curse

Book:The Queen of the Night

Source: The Queen of the Night

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