Quotes About Decision

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.

But it was even worse when you knew at that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

So, she went on, it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty? Or happiness for beauty? Could a gorgeous person with a mean streak be a worthy trade? And if you did make the trade, decide you'd take that beautiful swan and hope it wouldn't turn on you, what would you do if it did?

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

This could be a big mistake... but it was already happening. I was not a girl with all the information, but I knew one thing. If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend it here.

So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.

I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn't already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.

What you do in your dreams is never your choice.

A united front announcing a split.

Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided?

She had made her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control. Page 328

I want the white one

I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back.

It seemed like things either stayed just the same or changed irrevocably. And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between.

I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall part and see options instead of endings.

This isn't about him. It's about you. You shouldn't do anything you're not ready for.

Later, it would take me a minute to remember how exactly it happened. If I turned around and moved forward first, or he did. I just knew we didn't meet halfway. It was just a short distance really, not worth squabbling over. And maybe it didn't matter so much whether he took the step or I did. All I knew was that he was there.

The choice of no choice.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no? Not me. Not then. Call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or even without it, I was in, too.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine.

If only I'd been able to just tell him everything else, as well. But you can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can, under the circumstances.

What you have to decide," Kristy said to me, leaning forward, "is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it?