“I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.”

“I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE.I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE. EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT..”

“What did you do?" said Charles."You know that night all our shoes went into the hall," said Nirupam. "Well, we had a feast that night. Dan Smith made me get up the floorboards and get the food out. He says I have no right to be so large and so weak," Nirupam said resentfully, "and I was hating him for it, when I took the boards up and found a pair of running shoes, with spikes, hidden there with the food. I turned those shoes into a chocolate cake. I knew Dan was so greedy that he would eat it all himself. And he did eat it. He didn't let anyone else have any. You may have noticed that he wasn't quite himself the next day."So much had happened to Charles that particular day, that he could not remember Dan seeming anything at all. He didn't have the heart to explain all the trouble Nirupam had caused him. "Those were my spikes," he said sadly. He wobbled along on the mop rather awed at the thought of iron spikes passing through Dan's stomach. "He must have a digestion like an ostrich!""The spikes were turned into cherries," said Nirupam. "The soles were the cream. The shoes as a whole became what is called a Black Forest gateau.”

“Run!” Piper said.“We are running!” Jason picked up the speed.“Run better!” Leo shouted.”

“While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.”

“There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying. "When that happens, you got to move quick and take advantage of the sitchiation or you'll never know what might have been.""How do I know when it's time to move quick?" L'il Pea asked."When somethin' big happens and then somethin' else come up.”