Meg Rosoff Quotes

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

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.

the wheel of fate crushes us all

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Fate does not always seek our consent.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.