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“The only danger of the moment was that Jo - and Gabe - might let those seconds pass away without seeing them as Ursa did, as her own teeny tweak of fate in a vast and miraculous universe, as a wondrous gift she was offering to them.”

Book:Where the Forest Meets the Stars

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“Turnus, brought low, raised his eyes and an outstretched right hand in humble entreaty, and said: "This is my own desert; I make no appeal. Enjoy the fortune which falls to you. And if a poor father's sorrow can affect you - and you yourself had in Anchises such a father as mine - I beg of you, take pity on Daunus in his old age, and restore me, or, if you so prefer it, my dead body despoiled of life, to my own people. You have conquered; and Ausinian men have seen me hold forth hands uplifted in defeat. Lavinia is yours to wed. Stretch not your hatred further.”

War Death Peace Fate Defeat Conquest Empire

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“This is a tale of arms and of a man. Fated to be an exile, he was the first to sail from the land of Troy and reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore. He met many tribulations on his way both by land on on the ocean; high Heaven willed it, for Juno was ruthless and could not forget her anger.”

War History Fate Gods

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.”

Fate Gods

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“Meanwhile Aeneas the True longed to allay her grief and dispel her sufferings with kind words. yet he remained obedient to the divine command, and with many a sigh, for he was shaken to the depths by the strength of his love, returned to his ships.”

Love Fate Obedience Gods

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“Those gods on whom our power hitherto depended have forsaken their altars and their shrines and gone forth from us; the city which you would rescue is already ablaze; and it is for us to plunge amid the spears and die. Nothing can save the conquered but the knowledge that they cannot now be saved.”

Death Fate Gods Entropy

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

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