Quotes About Dilemma

The choices we made ... These were the right choices. They were positive and proactive. And it was, for a time, good for everyone, most especially our boy. But were these choices really? Or were they reactions? Reactions to something that life had thrown at us, something we didn't choose and didn't want. Is there a difference between reaction and choice? I don't know the answer.

Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging

Of course not, agreed Orddu. We're neither good nor evil. We're simply interested in things as they are. And things as they are, at the moment, seem to be that you're caught by the Crochan.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

Is there something wrong with your shoes?" he asked

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.

Save me from the virtuous.

If only you were willing to betray a trust, why, the most amazing range of possible actions opened up to you.

She considered the familiar conundrum inherent in complimenting a child for doing something well in the course of what ought not to have been done at all, and kept her peace.

The problem has just suddenly become a lot more interesting. Er, difficult. It's just become a bit more difficult.

Suddenly what to do with the rest of my life and what shirt to wear became equally daunting decisions.

The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.

God, she loved him. If she could give him his every desire then she would do it in a second, but some things she knew she couldn't do. Dawg and Natches she couldn't do. And she had no idea how to tell him.

She was glad she really loved stories. Suddenly she made a face. "Oh, yuck!" she said. "What is it?" asked Mrs. Jewls. "What if I really love John, too?

I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing the right and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

Jo vanished without a word. Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, 'Oh, do somebody go down quick; John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent.

She did not answer, for truth she could not, and falsehood she would not, give him.

I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing, sometimes, that father and mother hadn't been so dreadfully particular about such things.