#fates

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#love #war #love

People's fates are simplified by their names. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#names #people #simplified #their

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#almighty #almighty god #cannot #confide #councils

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart. ↗

— Harry Crosby

#apart #even #ever #existence #fates

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#before #disaster #everybody #fates #intimately

A lion may die of an ass's kick. ↗

— Robert Browning

#fates #life #power #weakness #courage

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#care #fates #i #i care #images

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anyone #caprice #fates #inoculated #intelligence

Be careful, little killer. The Fates can fuck with you in ways you can’t even imagine. ↗

— Larissa Ione

#imagination