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“Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.”

War Evil Possibility Demons Bad News Bad Luck Demonic Hell On Earth Tempting Fate Jinxing Something Bad

Book:Demons on the Dalton

Source: Demons on the Dalton

“His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names. Thomas Love survives his beloved elder brother Percy Bysshe who died in a sailing accident. Percy Bysshe, buried at sea. The name and the man, a strange attractor. Everything is true.”

Names Fate Wordplay Be My Wolff Emma Richler Romantics Tempting Fate Percy Bysshe Shelley

Book:Be My Wolff

Source: Be My Wolff

“She thought of the wax-white knook and shivered as she brushed against a pale pink tree branch. Was nothing the proper color here? Even the greens were more brilliant, more like paint than nature, the kinds of outlandish color she usually tried to temper in her own artwork. If she stayed, she thought absently, she could paint with the trees themselves, learn to sculpt petals and dew, hone even an animal into an ideal she created for it. She could craft beauty more rare and arresting than she ever could with watercolor and oil. She'd craved more of the world on the other side of the veil, wanted to taste the kind of success and belonging Alaine had, wanted recognition for her talents. Perhaps she could make that for herself here. Perrysburg, Pierce--- those had been poor illusions blurring what she really wanted. It would not be all pain, would it? Trading herself for Emily? All the places she had ever wanted to go, all the things she had ever wanted to see, all the art she had ever wanted to create--- didn't this place outstrip anything in her own world for beauty and discovery?”

Artistic Life Fairy Realm Tempting Fate Delphine Dreams And Desires

Book:The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

Source: The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

“I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate.”

Ifs Way Would Be My Own Fate Losing Scared Contact Tempting Tempting Fate

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.”

Needs Humans Reason Fate Human Reason Tempting Fate

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.”

Thinking Would Be Fate Tempting Tempting Fate

Author:Stephen Farrell

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

Would Be Romance Fate Luck Bad Luck Tempting Words Love Tempting Fate

Book:The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.”

Feels Feelings Grows Fate One Day Percent Harder Disaster Superstitious Tempting Tempting Fate

Book:Shampoo Planet

Source: Shampoo Planet

“I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?”

Thinking Littles Bigs Faces Felt Bits Numbers Fate Walking Little Bit Checks Hockey Throwing Ladders Thirteen Superstitious Tempting One For Me Playing Hockey Tempting Fate

Author:James Badge Dale