Dana Spiotta Quotes

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Necessity has no law.

… vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity.

Nature means Necessity.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.