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“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world鈥檚 weight he had never chosen to bear.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“It didn't matter if he stayed forever cursed. All that mattered was that he stayed, that he chose her instead of fear.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“The only reason that some people aren鈥檛 ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”
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“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“I had to choose between you or me. I chose you.鈥� Pixie Rae was glowering at me like she was holding a baseball bat to bullies. That was my girl. The no shit taking bad ass that somehow taught the world to be better for her.”
― Drowning in Stars
― Drowning in Stars
“In case you鈥檙e short on definitions, here鈥檚 one. Insanity: 鈥楧estroying the very things that sustain us.鈥� And if we鈥檙e so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it鈥檚 not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.”
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“We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren鈥檛 told is that this isn鈥檛 a shortcoming of translation; it鈥檚 a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.”
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“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was 鈥榚asy鈥� over that which was 鈥榬ight鈥�. And while it鈥檚 鈥榬ight鈥� to admit this to myself, it isn鈥檛 鈥榚asy.鈥� So, which choice am I going to make this time?”
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“ 鈥淚 would鈥檝e followed you anywhere,鈥� he mumbles, his voice raw with agony. 鈥淎ll I ever wanted was to spend forever with my best friend. With the girl who gave life to my paintings. But I鈥檓 not the one who inspired your mosaics, am I? It was always Wonderland. That鈥檚 why you chose him.鈥�
鈥淐hose him? It was a kiss, that鈥檚 all鈥斺€�
鈥淚t鈥檚 not the kiss. Sometimes words are louder than actions.鈥�
鈥淲ords . . . ? What words?鈥�
鈥淭he promise you gave him that you couldn鈥檛 give me.鈥� ”
― Ensnared
鈥淐hose him? It was a kiss, that鈥檚 all鈥斺€�
鈥淚t鈥檚 not the kiss. Sometimes words are louder than actions.鈥�
鈥淲ords . . . ? What words?鈥�
鈥淭he promise you gave him that you couldn鈥檛 give me.鈥� ”
― Ensnared
“Imagine, if you will:
A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too 鈥� creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.”
― Dead Man's Hammer
A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too 鈥� creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.”
― Dead Man's Hammer
“Large or small, I always have a choice. But I also have a choice to think that I don鈥檛 have a choice.”
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“There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son”
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“I had never chosen anything. I had always changed my colors according to my surroundings. Nor had I ever willingly engaged in providing advice on how to evade taxes or gone along with that kind of scheme. I merely went with the flow of the moment. I was thus virtually nonexistent.”
― ME: A Novel
― ME: A Novel
“People should be getting bad services or product because you chose to be in the wrong field or you chose to hate your job, supervisor, manager , boss, employment or what you do.”
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“Choose to differentiate If you like something, or you like the idea of liking something. There is a difference between liking sex and liking the idea of having sex. Most people lose themselves or destroy themselves thinking they like something, only to find the just like the idea of it.”
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“Some of the things are not as bad as they say, but they might be bad to you, because they are taking all your time and depriving you In what you would have become.”
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“My problem wasn鈥檛 my parents, it wasn鈥檛 my friends, it wasn鈥檛 my education, it wasn鈥檛 even the weird environment I grew up in. I chose to do drugs, I weighed the reasons for and against them, and I chose them because I thought they would provide meaning and pleasure to my life. I chose them because I believed life was a cosmic mishap and all we could do was make ourselves feel good before we die and slip away into nothingness. I chose them because they helped numb the pain of my hopeless worldview. I chose them because I didn鈥檛 know there was an alternative that could meet these needs in a better, more permanent, more fulfilling way.”
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
“And yet even after letting me see where my own path would lead me, God bailed me out of the consequences that I had brought on myself. It seemed even if I chose things that led to bondage and captivity, He would be there to stand on my behalf and offer me a path forward. He removed the incriminating evidence against me and set me free. But what good was it when I couldn鈥檛 change, when I just kept demanding my own way and getting myself trapped again and again?”
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
“Then I realized God chose me, baggage and all. God chose a drug addict, a kid who had chosen to sleep on the street in a blizzard to get his fix and get laid rather than go home to his family. A kid who lied, stole, and manipulated others. God chose someone virtually worthless and considered me valuable enough to lay down His life.”
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
― Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose
“But he... he was the catalyst in a way. And I chose him. I chose him because he made me feel like I was something other than the Maiden, and he saw me when no one else ever really did. He made me feel alive. He valued me for who I am and didn't try to control me.”
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
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