“How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.”

“as I said, I believe in fate. Things happen as they are meant to be. We just have to recognize our destiny.”

“We cannot stake our own fate on others, no matter how close our relationship with them.”

“Where does a story truly start? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet these are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen”

“How sorrowful is women's lot!" she cried.
"We all partake of woe, our common fate.”

“Sometimes one bad decision can mess up your life. We seal our fate with the choices we make. But don't give a second thought to the chances we take… Surely, you say, it's not as bad as you make it sound. If we make a mistake, you can always turn it back around. Get back on the straight and narrow -- When I'm through having all my fun... We seal our fate with the choices we make...”

“We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.”

“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”

“Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.”

“Tis strange how the heart can create
Or colour from itself its fate;
We make ourselves our own distress,
We are ourselves our happiness.”