Michelle Paver Quotes

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Death to life is crown or shame.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

There are no accidents.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

In my beginning is my end.

We are the playthings of the gods.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason.