Character Quote by Ben Blum

“Who else could you have been but exactly who you are? I said. Did you, in the womb, construct yourself? All your life you…

— George Saunders

“Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to…

— John Galavan

“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through…

— Faiqa Mansab

“I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whather it was power they sought,…

— Jodi Picoult

“Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend the difference…

— Susan Meissner

“In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the…

— Ian Fleming

“We don't always have a choice in our fate.”

— Holly Black

“I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always…

— Jonna Ivin

“But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but such a…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Still, we always have some level of choice, even if it only how we react and make use of what life brings us.”

— Shepherd Hoodwin

“Sometimes, good intentions couldn't do a thing except make you feel less alone, and sometimes that was enough.”

— Riley Redgate