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What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let ...more

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In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conf...more

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These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one d...more

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These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degr...more

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Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

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In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every ...more

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...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

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Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different ...more

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Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

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There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

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he knew that fate was only a mythological concept