Sarah Dessen Quotes

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

I'm a fatalist.

I am a great respector of fate.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Maktub" (It is written.)

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

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

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

I believe life is fated - what's going to happen will happen.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.