Three Fates Quotes

“[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“They passed a special display---marked by warning signs---of poisonous plants. Natalie had always been intrigued by the pendulous white angel's trumpets and the small, deceptively innocent-looking berries of deadly nightshade. "That one's a favorite in murder mysteries," she said. "Supposedly ten berries will kill a person. The poison's called atropine."
"The name comes from Atropos, one of the Three Fates," Peach said.
"Oh, now you're showing off again."
"What good is knowing stuff if you can't use it? Atropos was a bitch of a Fate. She could take you out by cutting the last thread of your life's tapestry." He made a snipping motion with his hand.
"I'll steer clear of her.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop