“Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look at you as someone whos afraid.Thats because every time you look at me, Im looking right back, and t...”

“He thought hed lived through everything. Only now did he realise hed merely existed.”

“Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, every pilgrimage from one end of the earth to the other I was looking for you.”

“Ill never let go of you again, she whispered. I swear it.”

“We have choice, she insisted. This is it. We dont get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones were given...”

“Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistibl...”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“Zakath stared at the floor. 'I suddenly feel very helpless,' he admitted, 'and I don't like the feeling. I've been rather effectively dethroned, you know. This morning I was the Emperor of the larg...”

“Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creates movement, where fear limits movement.”

“Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your so...”

“Sometimes you don't get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.”

“But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear a...”

“I think timing is better left up to God to decide then religious leaders. I once met a man that brought his wife flowers in the hospital. They held hands, kissed and were as affectionate as any cut...”