Quotes About Choice

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

I realized I was waiting for his permission to leave

This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.

Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.

I can't let you take the risk. I love you too much. -Schuyler Then you would rather see me bonded to a women I do not love? -Jack

She made her choice. She loved Oliver. Jack was not hers to love, and never had been.

As much as she still loved Jack, and as much as it would make her miserable forever to leave him again, there was Oliver to consider.

Leave him. Mimi held Kingsley's gaze. I can't...

She had chosen him; she had made him hers. She had done it out of love and duty. -Deming

Choice," Charles cursed. "A romantic notion, but nothing more.

But even if we're together, it will only kill Jack. -Sky If he will take the risk to be with you, who are you to tell him what to do with his life? -Allegra

Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. -Kingsley

Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.

Even though you can't control the things that happen to you, you can control your perspective and your actions. There's never a moment you can't choose who you want to be.

We're all trapped. I'm as trapped as they are. The more Ben thought about it, the more he knew it was true. He hadn't chosen to be born a prince and become a king, just as they hadn't chosen who their parents were. They were prisoners for a crime they themselves had not committed. That was the greater crime, wasn't it? It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living in a fairy tale someone else wrote.

There was no record of Allegra being allowed to bear a daughter in this cycle. So the mere fact that you were born was already a violation. From birth she had been a mistake, Schuyler thought. Her mother that still, silent figure in the hospital bed... why did she choose to have me? Schuyler wondered

Why us? How did we luck into this life? How is that fair? To be born into a life without a choice in the matter, without the freedom to be anyone else?

Wives get five years to make up their minds

Schuyler knew that one day it would come to this. That she would have to lose one to have the other one. That this game would have consequences.

For Schuyler who doesn't like love stories

You had to draw lines, and that choice was in itself dangerous; all boundaries had a double edge, were like swords that could always be turned against you in the end. But you still had to choose.

Somewhere, the imaginary little shoulder angel and devil were having a conversation on their respective sides, the angel offering a gentle warning that this might not be a good idea, given all the drama, the complications. But the little devil, with its pudgy belly and pointy ears, was so comical that Holly almost laughed when he rolled his eyes at the angel and whispered, Oh, whatever.