#choice

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#choices #essentially #every #existence #field

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts. ↗

— Chris Christie

#choices #government #higher #higher taxes #making

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#philosophy #choice

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. ↗

— Holly Black

#lies #truth #choice

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#word-choice #writing #choice

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#choice

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #tea #choice

Despite everything, I can’t bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#choice

Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#decisions #decisions