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All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
— Alice Hoffman
Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.
— Alice Hoffman
He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.
— Alice Hoffman
But then you like to tempt fate, don't you? Don't worry, it will all work out
— Alice Hoffman
She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.
— Alice Hoffman
We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.
— Alice Hoffman
just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.
— Alice Hoffman
this occurred only once in a person's life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life
— Alice Hoffman
Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.
— Alice Hoffman
To friendship," she agreed, although for the longest time they didn't let go of each other and she knew exactly what he was thinking—This must be fate—for that was what she was thinking as well.
— Alice Hoffman
you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.
— Alice Hoffman
Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.
— Alice Hoffman