Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.
The Worm Ouroboros
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These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.
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