Esther

“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping: A Luminous Scottish Fable of Love, Storytelling, and the Journey from Darkness to Light

“There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be; its only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations