Chase Thompson

“So if it wasn’t fate, what brought you to the concert tonight?”
. . . .
..he said, “You.”

“Me?”

He nodded. “Yes, you.”

“But you didn’t know you’d meet me.”

“A meaningless detail. Fate works forward, backward, and crisscrosses sideways and couldn’t care less how we scan its purposes with our rickety little befores and afters.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“As the French poet says, Le temps d’apprendre à vivre il est déjà trop tard, by the time we learn to live, it’s already too late.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.”
There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him, because it made him feel so strangely young—when she now seemed so old. “What if we go on,” he said, “only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?”
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. “Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“What if we go on, to only more pain and despair?" "Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash