“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”

— Mitch Albom

Variant: Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.
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American author 1958

Rudolfo Anaya (1937) Novelist, poet

On New Mexico and its people in “THE GODFATHER” https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/the-godfather/ in New Mexico Magazine (2017)

“Books don’t have a nutritional value. Which is to say, we don’t just read "good" books because they’re good for us. We read to expand our horizons, to understand and connect with something outside ourselves, good and bad. We read to challenge ourselves…”

Mariko Tamaki (1975) Canadian writer and artist

On reading books that might be deemed inappropriate in “We Read To Challenge Ourselves: An Interview With Mariko Tamaki” https://comicsalliance.com/mariko-tamaki-pride-week-interview/ in Comics Alliance (2016 Jun 24)

“Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.”

Léon Rosenfeld (1904–1974) Belgian physicist

As quoted in A Question of Physics: Conversations in Physics and Biology (1979), Paul Buckley and F. David Peat, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, p. 29.

“am not talking about fate. I don’t believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.”

Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) American writer

Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

“What we usually mean by fate is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves”

Imre Kertész book Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
Context: What we usually mean by fate is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves, that subversive, unknown individual constantly plotting against us, whom, estranged and alienated but still bowing with disgust before his might, we call, for the of simplicity, fate.