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Snow Falling on Cedars Love Quotes

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Quote #10

Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so, he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. (32.82)

In Ishmael's view, everything is pretty much chance or accident except love, which exerts its own will (as Ishmael knows only too well).