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“We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
“Raven looks at me. “What about you, Lena?”I can feel Alex’s eyes on me. My mouth is so dry; the sun is so blinding. I look away, toward the hundreds and hundreds of people who have been driven out ...”
“Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer’s porch. Our choice is in the drinking.”
“Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.”
“It’s so strange how one choice can derail so many lives. It was so huge to me, I expected her answer to change everything, but it didn’t. I guess that’s life, right? You never really know what’s wa...”
“Every choice is limited. That's life.”
“Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.”
“I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)”
“It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.”
“We have choice,” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...”
“When to elect there is but one Tis Hobson's Choice take that or none.”
“For many are called but few are chosen.”
