20 quotes
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.
The Choice (2007)
How far should a person go in the name of true love?
The Choice (2007)
Parents might believe themselves to be the bosses, but in the end it was the kids who made the rules.
The Choice (2007)
No pretenses, no attempts to impress, no one trying to show anyone up.
The Choice (2007)
"In other words, when the going get tough, the tough get going."
The Choice (2007)
You're doing the best you can, right? Isn't that what we always tell each other?
The Choice (2007)
He loved his wife but hated what life with her had become, cursing himself for even thinking this way.
The Choice (2007)
'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'...'Blessed are the lazy who lie in boats, for they shall inherit a suntan.'
The Choice (2007)
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
The Choice (2007)
Was living together a step toward the future or just a way to continue the present?
The Choice (2007)
"Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them...."
The Choice (2007)
Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.
The Choice (2007)
...people always said that parenting and worrying were synonymous...
The Choice (2007)
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present...yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
The Choice (2007)
That was one of the great things about being single: A person could pretty much do what he wanted, whenever he wanted, and introspection was only an option.
The Choice (2007)
"Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love."
"Spoken like a man with plenty of experience. But keep in mind that true love lasts forever."
"Poets would say that true love always ends in tragedy."
The Choice (2007)
"...people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same thing, but somehow on one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way."
The Choice (2007)
Thinking back, he recalled events he wished he could change, tears he wished had never been shed, time that could have been better spent, and frustrations he should have shrugged off. Life, it seemed, was full of regret, and he yearned to turn back the clock so he could live parts of his live over again. One thing was certain: He should have been a better husband.
The Choice (2007)
Finding a woman with a sense of humor had been the one piece of advice his father had given him when he'd first begun to get serious about dating, and he finally understood why his dad had considered it important. If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
The Choice (2007)
...He was with the woman and daughters he loved, and who could ever need or want anything more than that?...It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all, it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.
The Choice (2007)