“Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate”
“(...) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.”
“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”
“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”
“You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.”
“Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.”