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• But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

  Emily Maguire

  Letting Go, Regret, Knowing

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• If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Animal, Choices

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• At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Hurt, Distance, Space

  "Grey's Anatomy". TV Series, m.imdb.com.

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• I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Real, Destiny

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.

  Kate Morton

  Loneliness, Self, Way

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?

  Elie Wiesel

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.101, Penguin UK

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• By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Definitions

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.364, A&C Black

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• I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

  Rumi

  Dust, Long, Path

  "Rumi and Self-Discovery" by Ibrahim Gamard, Islamica Magazine Issue 15, Summer 2005.

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• This isn't about them, he snarled at me. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her!

  Stephenie Meyer

  "Breaking Dawn: Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, February 26, 2009.

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• For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Son, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Comforting, Contradictory, Collections

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.432, Macmillan

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• As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Men, Depth

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Years, Preparation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Alex, Want

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• It hurts more than anything in the world because even though it might not be the case, it feels like you've chosen your child over me. 'I haven't there is no choice. She's part of me. You're part of me too. It's like...I don't know...asking me to pick between my heart and my lungs.' 'I know, but the thing is, you are my heart and my lungs. You're everything to me. And what hurts is that I know i used to be everything to you.

  Mike Gayle

  Hurt, Children, Heart

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• Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Responsibility, Rights

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• She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Confused, Believe

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• As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

  Michael J. Fox

  New Roads, Forsaken, Instance

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• There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Beautiful, Book

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• When Darroc returns, I know by the look in his eyes that I've chosen well. He thinks I picked black and red for him, the colors of his guard, the colors he has told me he selected for his future court. I chose black and red for the tattoos on Barrons' body. Tonight I wear my promise to him that I will make things right.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Tattoo, Eye, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1079, Dell

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• Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Optimistic, Long, Waiting

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Strong, Integrity, Character

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1998.

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• Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

  Steve Martin

  Girl, Firsts, Attractive

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• You have sacrified so much. And our Clan walks a safer path now. With this life, I give you pride, so that you may know your own worth and the worth of your Clan. Thank you for raising Whitestorm. You were chosen long ago, and StarClan has never regretted its choice.

  Erin Hunter

  Pride, Long Ago, Giving

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• I am no warrior, but I am a ThunderClan cat. I stay in the nursery rather than hunt and fight because that is what I do best. I care for our young as though they were my own. This is my gift to the Clan, but I do it in my own chosen name.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Fighting, Warrior

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