“None of us can choose where we shall love…”

— Susan Kay, Phantom

Source: Phantom

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British writer 1952

David Gemmell book Legend

Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 10

“We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”

Theodore Sturgeon book E Pluribus Unicorn

Source: E Pluribus Unicorn

“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“This man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered.”

Robert Hayden (1913–1980) American writer and academic

Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Anthem (1937)

“It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: Gardenias for Breakfast

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”

Kate Mosse book The Winter Ghosts

Variant: And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.
Source: The Winter Ghosts

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”

Sena Jeter Naslund (1942) American writer

Source: Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)

“None of us can choose where we shall love…”

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