Quotes About Choice

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

I don't want to be that person, who just takes things.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band; go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that too. .. And that would suck, but I'll do it. I can lose you like that, if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy." "Really? Was that how you quit me?" And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my head first, without arguing with myself for days, it's out there. "So," she says, as if speaking to an audience under the bridge. "He finally says it.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

If I stay. If I live. It's up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It's not up to the doctors. It's not up to the absentee angels. It's not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It's up to me.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want...But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too...I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

A veces hay que elegir en la vida, y a veces la vida te elige a ti.

Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

Tranquila. Si quieres irte, no pasa nada. Todo el mundo quiere que te quedes. Y yo, más de lo que he deseado ninguna otra cosa en mi vida. Pero ése es mi deseo, y comprendo que quizá tú tengas tus motivos para querer otra cosa. Entenderé que decidas irte. No pasa nada si tienes que dejarnos y decides dejar de luchar. No te preocupes por nosotros.

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

Life might take you down different roads. But you get to decide which one to take.

Si te quedas, haré lo que quieras. Dejaré la banda, me iré contigo a Nueva York. Pero si necesitas que me aleje de ti, lo haré. Quizá volver a tu antigua vida sea demasiado doloroso para ti, quizá te resultaría más fácil borrarnos a todos. Y eso sería una mierda, pero lo aceptaría. Me siento capacitado para perderte de esa manera, si no te pierdo hoy. Prometo que te dejaré marchar, pero has de quedarte.»

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.

But you decide how you live your life in the meantime. You can hide fear. Or you can live life. - V

I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want.

I think I'll try the cinnamon-spice chai latte," she said, giving me a stern look that said, I will not be ashamed of my beverage selection.

Cinders, I would've thought you of all people would know better. There are no wicked stepmothers and there are no fairy godmothers, and there are no Prince Charmings. There in no preordained destiny. You get to decide that. You decide your destiny. - V

If I turn into one of those girls, I'll hand you the gun.

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is.

Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.