“Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.Some scars never heal.Then again, some do.”

“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”

“Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.”

“Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.”

“It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.”

“No book is written; it's always re-written”