These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

...he knew human lives were free of the chains of fate except in one regard: It was the human destiny to be free.

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.