Quotes About Decision

Move forward with the proper balance of caution and panicked haste.

I could have not returned, and I've returned.

Memory, you realized long ago, is a game that a healthy-brained person can play all the time, and the game of memory is won or lost on one criterion: Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

If this were a game, he could hit pause. He could restart, say different things, the right ones this time. He could search his inventory for the item that would make Sadie not leave.

My brain said no. But my heart!

I told him I didn't want to have sex until I got married. Without missing a beat, he nodded and said, "So let's get married.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. "If you lose a flower, you get another flower," Maya reasons. "If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever. The ring bearer has much more power." "You sound like Gollum," A.J. says. "Who's Gollum?" Maya wants to know. "Someone very nerdy that your father likes," Amelia says.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don't make a few bad choices, the story will be terribly boring. If you do everything right and you're always good, the story will be very short.

It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails; I was heads.

My point is, it's tempting," she said. "It is certainly tempting to continue on with something because it has already begun.

Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. "If you lose a flower, you get another flower," Maya reasons. "If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever.

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

You can't unilaterally decide to work on it." "Marx'll back me." "I bet he will." "He'll back me because it could be a great game, Sam." "He'll back you because he takes your side in everything. Because he's screwing you.

Sadie laughed a bit to herself, thinking this was what it was like to play someone else's game: to have the illusion of choice, without actual choice.

It is relatively easy to pack up your life when you're twenty-three, and Sadie was significantly finished by the time Dov returned from the break.

If it doesn't work, all we've lost is a lot of time and money." Sam laughed. "Let's do this," he said.

It would be so easy, Ismay thinks. You walk out. You swim for a while. You swim too far. You don't try to swim back. Your lungs fill up. It hurts for a bit, but then it's over. Nothing ever hurts again, and your conscience is clear. You don't leave a mess. Maybe your body washes up some day. Maybe it doesn't.