How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Fate isn't in your hands. That would be a very heavy burden for a little girl." (20.91)
Tell that to Buffy, Dr. Kellet. In one of Ursula's later lives, she does take the burden of fate on, and practically crumbles under its weight. Feeling responsible for the future of the world is impossible for anyone to bear, at any age.
Quote #5
"Amor fati. […] A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good." (20.107)
This might just be the main point of the novel. Ursula isn't happy until she accepts this theory: that what happens, happens. Or, in reality TV show lingo: It is what it is.
Quote #6
"[Harold] had a scrap with […] Edwina about predestination."
"She believes in that? I thought she was Anglican."
"I know. She has no sense of logic though." (21.11-13)
Fate doesn't follow any sense of logic. It's not logical that Ursula is born and reborn, and can only vaguely remember echoes of certain events—but it's true.