“As if that in some way made it better, that fate hadn’t planned it weeks in advance.”

“Fate has a strange way of making plans.”

“And just like that, I knew what I wanted. Something I had always wanted. But it was so unrealistic it hadn’t even made it to my wish list.”

“Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.”

“She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn’t gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.”

“That's not how I'd planned it to be.""How did you plan it to be?" I ask, not to be snarky but because I am genuinely curious."I planned it to be a million different things," he replies. "And in the end, I couldn't figure which one it should be.”

“Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.”