“Fate.She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisions and hard work were what paid off. And they had.But, really, it was getting to the point where it felt like the universe was screaming at her to pay attention!”

“No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.”

“Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who's always near and never far”

“This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”

“I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”

“The mind is a strange thing: it works in secret. Oftentimes the most important decisions in life are made while you're not paying attention.”