Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

Patrick McGrath
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  2. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. - Marcus Aurelius

  3. Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves. - Marissa Meyer

  4. Amor Fati — “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  5. Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. - Rosamund Hodge

More Quotes By Patrick McGrath
  1. We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.

  2. Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

  3. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.

  4. Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

  5. Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

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