Quotes About Dilemma

Having two women—one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

You better have had a baby, killed someone, or slept with a pure. Those are your three options. Anything less is unsuitable.

Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't

She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.

What do you want me to do, Adam?" my sister asked finally, her voice soft enough now that I had to strain to hear. "Things were bad in Montana. I'm not sending her back, and I am not shipping her off to some boarding school. And don't give me that look—you were the one who told me to bring her here three years ago!

Our minds have a way of tricking us into thinking we have two options when there are really seven.

Sometimes," he said, "when I'm in a social pickle, I like to ask myself, WWJAD?" I raised an eyebrow, and he explained. "What Would Jane Austen Do?

Eve stapte in en toen ik haar voorbeeld volgde vroeg ik me af of Pandora zich ook zo had gevoeld toen ze de doos openmaakte.

I'm not a shitty person, but I'm about to do a shitty thing. and you will hate me, and some other people will hate me, but I'm going to do it anyway to protect you and also myself.

But the means—he was less certain that the means were above reproach. But what can a man do, or a woman either, but use what comes to hand?

In such dreadful times as these no one can do more than choose his own road according to his conscience, and bear the consequences of his choice, whatever they may be.

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die? 'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.

I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

Really, Miss Catherine, how can I know?' I replied. 'To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon, I might say it would be wise to refuse him: since he asked you after that, he must either be hopelessly stupid or a venturesome fool.

Will you give up Heathcliff hereafter, or will you give up me? It is impossible for you to be my friend and his at the same time; and I absolutely require to know which you choose.

and firstly, let me beware of the fascination that lurks in Catherine Heathcliff's brilliant eyes. I should be in a curious taking if I surrendered my heart to that young person, and the daughter turned out a second edition of the mother.

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.

Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?