What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.