“I didn't ask to be made a princess." This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough. "Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times that are theirs?" "Well, who accepts the world only as it comes to them?" she says, too quickly.”
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“Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.”
“To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?”
“Life is actually a self made web of fate.”