Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
Lauren OliverTag: chance coincidence
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For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.
Tom ConradTag: love fate afterlife chance arrogance fools destiny ghosts midnight-merlot rich-pickings-for-ravens tom-conrad
The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at him. The outlandish evidence did seem to speak for itself, truly suggesting a mocking narrative devised by some mischievous author because quite simply a banana condom had brought Midnight into the world and a banana skin had seen him out. Putting those two seeming truths together, Midnight was once again forced to ask such confused and searching questions like:
What is this place, where am I heading? And what’s the deal with all the ruddy bananas?
Tag: fate chance providence ghosts conception bananas midnight-merlot rich-pickings-for-ravens monikers the-afterlife-crisis unusual-names
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
Eric ChaissonTag: determinism nature necessity chance randomness
He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.
Helen HodgmanTag: chance immortality thoughts daughter son lessons-learned dazed hard-lessons
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
Milan KunderaTag: chance coincidence
She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
Ann BrasharesIt's not who, it's when
Alejandro TaubasTag: love opportunity chance flirting
An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.
Francisca OliviaTag: opportunity chance quote regrets
...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.
Émile GaboriauTag: chance crime accomplice
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