If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

You see what power is—holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

—Amy Tan

Memory feeds imagination.

—Amy Tan

I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

—Amy Tan

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

—Aeschylus

I think some people are just inexplicably bonded. Drawn by forces beyond their own comprehension, they have no choice but to gravitate toward one another. Destined by fate to keep crossing paths until they finally get it right.

—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

—Groucho Marx

I thought it must be fate that I kept bumping into him, some strange sign that he was meant to come back into my life and fix or change something, a voice from the past arriving in the present with the answers to everything.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

Experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride