Patrick Ness Quotes

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

People either leave or they stay.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

Is that your final answer?

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and force of the stream.

If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

Make certain decisions only once.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.