"And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will."

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Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.127, Egmont UK

Elizabeth Wein

#Ideas Quotes #Honor Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
“I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.”
“I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.”
“Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it”

Source : Pip Karmel (2000). “Me Myself I: A Novel”, p.219, Simon and Schuster
“You have to break in half to love somebody.”
“Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.”
“I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.”

Source : Interview with Eric Harvey, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2011.
“There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.”

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