“Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards…and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.”

“Between safety and adventure I choose adventure.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

“Believing everything she read
In the daily news,
(No in-between to choose)
She thought that only
One side won,
Not that BOTH
Might lose.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“You can't choose between evil and evil, in the dark, by logic. You can only cling to some safety line of principle.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

“Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

“We must choose to be dependent. There is nothing powerless about the choice to be dependent and it is safe assuming that both people realize that their wellbeing is inseparable from the other person. This is the foundation of interdependence.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.”

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer

“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”

Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure