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Quotes About Choice

If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've been pushed by passion or despair.
~ Honore de Balzac
The time during which a woman can look for admiration is short, it will soon be past; and if my life has not been a great one, it will at least have been calm, tranquil, free from shocks. Nature has favored our sex in giving us a choice between love and motherhood. I have made mine. My children shall be my gods, and this spot of earth my Eldorado.
~ Honore de Balzac
but sometimes doing the wrong thing was also right.
~ Liane Moriarty
How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?
~ Liane Moriarty
She made the right choice for the girl she was then.
~ Liane Moriarty
She wanted to be falling in love, not trying to fix a broken relationship. She wanted to be someone's first choice, not their second.
~ Liane Moriarty
I'll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?' 'Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise.
~ Liane Moriarty
Just come back home, Abigail, come back home and stop this. He left us. He left you. You were my reward. Missing out on you was his punishment. How could you choose him?
~ Liane Moriarty
Zach was still there. He wasn't going anywhere. He was going to stick around while she finished uni and traveled and got a job and got married and got old. Just because he chose death didn't mean Zoe couldn't choose life. He was still there in her heart and her memory, and he was going to stay beside her, keeping her company right until the end.
~ Liane Moriarty
Reader, she didn't marry him,
~ Liane Moriarty
It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.
~ Liane Moriarty
Like so many things in life, it had seemed like an excellent idea at the time.
~ Liane Moriarty
Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling.
~ Liane Moriarty
There would be no point asking Sarah because she was incapable of making a decision. If Cecilia asked her if she wanted tea or coffee, she would sit for a full minute, her forehead furrowed as she agonized over the pros and cons of each beverage, before finally saying, "Coffee! No, wait, tea!" A decision like this one would give her a seizure.
~ Liane Moriarty
Now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if you got to choose how things turned out.
~ Liane Moriarty
Coffee! No, wait, tea!" A decision like this one would give
~ Liane Moriarty
convince them to turn around and go back into
~ Liane Moriarty
It was the lesser of two evils.
~ Liane Moriarty
He didn't say he forgave her, but she took it as forgiveness. A younger couple might have spent months in counseling talking it through, but she knew they were done with it. Move on. Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now. She had betrayed him. He chose to still love her. There was nothing more to say.
~ Liane Moriarty
Love is a decision.
~ Liane Moriarty
You do not need a recipe plan," said Masha. "You are intelligent woman. You know what to do to lose weight, if that's what you want. You are not especially fat. You are not especially thin. You want to be thinner. That is your choice. I find this not so interesting.
~ Liane Moriarty
At some point, Will made a choice to look at Felicity with the eyes of a single man. That was the moment he betrayed Tess.
~ Liane Moriarty
Things aren't that simple," said Tiffany. "They are if we want them to be," said
~ Liane Moriarty
Friends are the family we chose for ourselves.
~ Liane Moriarty