Emily Giffin Quotes

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

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. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.