Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that , I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so. I do not know." -- Phèdre nó Delaunay, narrator of Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (2001, Tor Books)