“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!”
— Rick Riordan, book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
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