Fate Quotes in The Sun is Also a Star

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Quote #7

Of all the ways today could've gone, I couldn't have predicted this. But now I'm sure that everything that's happened today has been leading me to her and us to this moment and this moment to the rest of our lives. (175)

This norebang makeout sesh must really be something.

Quote #8

Does he really need me to tell him that all the seconds matter? That our own universe exploded into existence in the space of a breath? (296)

It’s not clear which universe Daniel’s talking about—the actual, physical universe or his own mini-universe with Natasha—but either way, he’s right that every second he has left with Natasha is important.

Quote #9

I want the whole world to stop. There are too many moving parts that are outside of my control. I feel like I'm in an elaborate Rube-Goldberg contraption that someone else designed. I don't know the mechanism to trigger it. I don't know what happens next. I only know that everything cascades, and that once it starts it won't stop. (302)

After Natasha realizes Attorney Fitzgerald wasn’t able to stop her deportation, readers get a taste of why she’s so anti-Fate: She hates feeling like she has no control over what’s happening to her.