Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

Your attitude is a choice.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

You make a choice to win and you win...

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

One choice can transform you!

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.